Building a spatial microsimulation-based planning support system for local policy making

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2482-2499

  Ballas, Dimitris ^a   Kingston, Richard ^b   Stillwell, John C H ^c   Jin, Jianhui ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; METROPOLITAN AREA; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; SOFTWARE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35648978920     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38441     Document Type: Article

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