Integrated procedures for the drawing of linear networks: Digital graphic processing of cycling paths

The paper aims to highlight the potential and applicability of an integrated digital approach that uses the drawing as a concrete tool in support of the territorial and urban design. The integration of territorial analysis tools, together with others more traditionally used in algorithmic-generative processes, could allow to reach a global management system of data and information. In fact, territorial and urban transformations, by their nature or by virtue of their intrinsic complexity, require multi-scale control and managed on multiple interconnected levels. Through specific digital representations, we intend to illustrate the possibility of using a GIS system, integrated with parametric mod-ellers, for the management and verification of a series of design choices that involve urban or territorial transformations. The proposed methodology aims to validate an analysis system applicable whenever actions are needed within an already con-solidated urban space, especially to create or implement linear networks. The proposed operating procedure is therefore aimed at identifying cycle paths through a semiautomatic framework: the contribution proposes, in particular, an application on the road network of the Capaccio-Paestum Municipality, in the province of Salerno.