Xplorah: support for integrated spatial planning in Puerto Rico

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Xplorah: support for integrated spatial planning in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico is a very special island thanks to its vibrant cultural life, the architecture of its towns, the remnants of its past, and its natural marvels: coral reefs, beaches, caves, and tropical forests. With a population just below 4 million living on an area less than 10,000 km2, it is a densely populated place. Xplorah addresses practical problems related to spatial planning in an open-ended and integrated manner. It thus allows a user to explore a problem in all its aspects and helps forming an informed and balanced opinion What effects are to be expected if this area will be zoned for housing starting in 2005 ? Puerto Rico faces many of the challenges that are characteristic for small islands: an open and relatively small economy, a rugged landscape with a concentration of people and activities in the coastal zone, fragmentation and loss of high quality land, pressure on the coastal wetlands, deforestation, flooding, pollution, scarcity of drinking water, etc. Xplorah features an intuitive point-and-click interface that can be used with little training. In this fashion the zoning maps may be adjusted, as well as transport networks, scenarios and other model settings. Furthermore, tropical storm, which are common in the Caribbean seas, can gain hurricane force and cause tremendous damage. Further global warming may increase both their intensity and their frequency. Once the model is started, land use maps as well as indicator screens are dynamically updated on a yearly basis. During the course of a run, the user can pause the model and make adjustments to the plans and scenarios Xplorah is a planning support system aimed to facilitate a formal and well-informed spatial planning practice. A first prototype became available in March 2002 and a second version was released in March 2003. In February 2003, the House of Representatives and the Senate unanimously passed a law to support the further development of Xplorah and its use to evaluate mid to long term spatial policies (horizon 2025). 2000 2005 In the next 5 years, Xplorah is to evolve into a spatial decision support system for the integrated assessment of socio-economic and environmental spatial policies. It will enable an exploration of : Autonomous developments (dynamics) of the system; Effects of current policies now and in the future; Effects of alternative and potential future policies now and in the future. 2010 Xplorah simulates socioeconomic processes at three levels of spatial detail. The models at these levels do not operate independently but instead are reciprocally linked, for instance the model at the local level takes the number of people and job positions of the regional model and at the same time the regional model uses aggregated results of the local model to calculate a regional attraction index. Considering that Xplorah is developed as a spatial policy support system, it is most crucial that it does not only perform realistic simulations but that it also expresses the model results in terms relevant to the evaluation of policies. For this reason, Xplorah calculates indicators at three levels of spatial detail. National Model National trends driven by scenarios (population, economic, climate), an economic input-output model and a population model. National Indicators National indicators are presented in the form of time curves. There are national indicators for population, economic activity and jobs 17 Regions 225000 Cellular units Puerto Rico Regional Model Spatial interaction-based model. Location and relocation of population and job positions is based on relative attraction of the regions. Regional Indicators The indicators that are calculated for the whole nation are also calculated per region and presented in region maps. Local Model Cellular Automata based model allocates the population and jobs to individual locations (cells) on the map. It uses detailed GIS information of zoning, suitability and accessibility Local Indicators The local indicators are most extensive, including a wide range of environmental, economic and social indicators Job potential Fragmentation of natural area Xplorah is developed by the Research Institute for Knowledge Systems (RIKS). For more information please look at www.riks.nl or contact: Guy Engelen Research Institute for Knowledge Systems P.O. Box 463 6200 AL Maastricht The Netherlands e-mail: gengelen@riks.nl Xplorah is developed for the Graduate School for Planning of the University of Puerto Rico and the Public Policy Research Centre of the Rafael Hernández Colón Foundation. For further information, please contact: Elías R. Gutiérrez Graduate School for Planning University of Puerto Rico San Juan, PR 00931-3354 Tel. 787-764.00.00, extensión 3182