Interactive Visualization Tool (InViTo)

The instrument developed by SiTI, called InViTo (acronym of Interactive Visualization Tool), aims to provide a visual interactive support to large scale planning processes. The tool is intended to provide an effective basis for sharing information and enabling discussion among different actors such as planners, stakeholders and, in general, nonexpert people within focus groups, workshops, participative and collaborative processes. The decision to develop this instrument stems from the need to analyse the relations between urban development and spatial elements, such as transport facilities or landscape issues. Since accessibility is one of the factors which most influence location choices, a specific study has been dedicated for its investigation. The main strength of InViTo is represented by the possibility of managing interactive and dynamic scenarios, in order to visualize in real time the effects of decision making on urban form and to support the planning processes. Due to its flexibility, the tool can be used for several applications and in different fields of research which need to visualize geo-referenced data on maps. In this COST Action, InViTo is presented as a tool for calculating and visualizing accessibility in real time during participated planning processes.