Chapter 5 Spatial Analysis and Land-Use Planning Elnaz Miandoabchi and Nasrin Asgari In today’s global economy, logistics and supply chain management has become the back-bone that supports national economic growth. Logistics is definitely becoming a key issue of the economic development. One of the key parts of the development planning for the economic sectors is planning for the geographical and spatial development of the economic activities which is crucial in achieving balanced and sustainable development. Spatial plan- ning contains methods which the public sector employees to control and direct the future distribution of the activities in the space. Public sector as the leader of the direction of the whole development of the economic sectors has the respon- sibility of planning and regulation for the spatial development of the logistics sector, considering the socio-economic and environmental consequences of the plans. In this chapter, we will discuss spatial planning and analysis for the logistics industry. After a brief definition of the concept, we examine the geographic concepts of logistics. Then, we proceed to describe the role of public sector in planning for the logistics sector, especially from spatial planning aspect, and then we proceed to present some real world examples of spatial planning and spatial analysis for logistics activities. 5.1 Spatial Planning and Development There are numerous definitions of spatial planning. One of the earliest definitions comes from the European Regional/Spatial Planning Charter (often called the “Tor- remolinos Charter”), adopted in 1983 by the European Conference of Ministers responsible for regional planning: “Regional/spatial planning gives geographical expression to the economic, social, cultural and ecological policies of society. It is, at the same time, a scientific discipline, an administrative technique and a policy developed as an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach directed towards a R. Zanjirani Farahani et al., Supply Chain and Logistics in National, International and Governmental Environment. Contributions to Management Science. DOI 10.1007/978-3-7908-2156-7 5, c  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 85