Abstract
This chapter presents a framework called “Level of Sustainable Activity” (LSA) that integrates the boating community, business, and management into a process for analyzing and interpreting the outputs of agent-based vessel simulations to define waterway vessel capacities and management strategies. This chapter describes the LSA framework and explores its application in two very diverse contexts:
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an urban river (Yarra River) in Melbourne, Australia, and;
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a vast wilderness waterway (Prince William Sound) in Alaska.
These two case studies will be used to demonstrate how an integrated planning framework such as LSA can provide a robust way of helping citizens understand and interpret outputs from a simulation model by exploring the experience and desires of the boating community (commercial and recreational) to define:
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the quality of experience they are looking for;
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the impact of varying traffic densities of different types of vessels on that experience, and;
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management suggestions and directions from stakeholders.
The LSA framework provides an alternative to social carrying capacity models and promotes ownership of the process by stakeholders and provides management with deeper insights into the nature of the vessel management problem from a user’s perspective. The results of implementing the LSA framework have provided strategic and tactical guidance to managers for managing vessel traffic to target the requirements of a diverse boating community.
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Itami, R.M., Gimblett, R., Poe, A. (2017). Level of Sustainable Activity: A Framework for Integrating Stakeholders into the Simulation Modeling and Management of Mixed-Use Waterways. In: Gray, S., Paolisso, M., Jordan, R., Gray, S. (eds) Environmental Modeling with Stakeholders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25053-3_11
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