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The Objectives and Design of a New Land-use Modelling Package: DELTA

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This chapter considers the objectives, the design and the applications of the DELTA land-use modelling package, which has been developed by the author and his colle-agues at David Simmonds Consultancy since the beginning of 1995.

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Simmonds, D. (2001). The Objectives and Design of a New Land-use Modelling Package: DELTA. In: Clarke, G., Madden, M. (eds) Regional Science in Business. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04625-8_9

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