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An Agent-Based Model as a Tool of Planning at a Sub-regional Scale

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This paper describes an agent-based model developed to simulate the impact that different planning policies may have in enhancing the attractiveness of the industrial estates located in a network of four municipalities located in the North of Portugal. The policies were simulated using three scenarios that can be distinguished by the municipal level of coordination they are implemented and by the type of action performed. In the model, enterprises are agents looking for a suitable location and the estates attractiveness is based on their level of facilities, amenities, accessibility and in the cost of soil. The coordinated qualification of the industrial estates is the most effective policy to strengthen their attractiveness. It was in this scenario that more industrial estates become attractive and more enterprises relocated. Results also indicate that the promotion of diffused and unqualified industrial estates is an inefficient policy to attract enterprises.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Fernando Pereira da Fonseca & Rui A. R. Ramos

  2. Department of Transportation Engineering, School of Engineering of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

    Antônio Nélson Rodrigues da Silva

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    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  3. Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A. C. Rocha

  4. DICAR, Polytecnico di Bari, 70125, Bari, Italy

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da Fonseca, F.P., Ramos, R.A.R., da Silva, A.N.R. (2014). An Agent-Based Model as a Tool of Planning at a Sub-regional Scale. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014. ICCSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8580. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09129-7_44

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