An Evaluation of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Subregional Land-Use Allocation Model. Volume III

摘要

A subregional model is reviewed prior to the applications testing of the model in Ohio. Its purpose is to interface labor supply and demand with industrial level-use allocation. In practice, land use is not considered at all by the model except in implicit terms. Instead, the model allocates labor and population to subregions through the process of adding and removing industrial plants and other activities. The model also calculates the commuting and migration which result from the allocation process. This overview of the theories and ideas behind the model includes the following: (1) a critique of the mathematical representation made of the socioeconomic system by this model; (2) a focus on a series of technical problems in the computer code, documentation, data sources, and availability; and (3) a set of recommendations and conclusions concerning this model and its potential usefulness in Ohio.