A case study in digital government - Developing and applying UrbanSim, a system for simulating urban land use, transportation, and environmental impacts

作     者：Waddell, P Borning, A 

作者机构：Univ Washington Seattle WA 98195 USA 

出 版 物：《SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTER REVIEW》 (社会科学计算机评论)

年 卷 期：2004年第22卷第1期

页      面：37-51页

核心收录：

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 03[法学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：urban simulation urban modeling land use transportation environmental impacts digital government UrbanSim agile software development Value Sensitive Design open source 

摘      要：The UrbanSim project provides a case study in Digital Government, and this article examines progress to date in developing and applying the system in a range of metropolitan areas. Digital Government is meant here in the context of an innovative, cross-cutting initiative of the National Science Foundation. The project integrates academic research on urban simulation modeling and policy evaluation with research on human-computer interaction and software engineering, and uses a value-sensitive design to ensure that the system addresses the needs of governments and citizens. This article addresses the importance of the problem domain and the project objectives, presents a range of challenges, and outlines the design and application of UrbanSim in response to these. It discusses issues arising in the application of the model in the Salt Lake City metropolitan region, where a lawsuit over a highway project has precipitated use of UrbanSim to assess the interactions of transportation, land use, and environmental outcomes, and concludes with an assessment and directions for future research.