A regional planning model for infrastructural development in the Bicol River Basin, Philippines | |
| Author | Hsieh, Charng-horng |
| Call Number | AIT Diss. no.D23 |
| Subject(s) | Regional planning--Bicol River Basin Cities and towns--Planning--Bicol River Basin |
| Note | A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Engineering of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | This research aims at constructing an operational, dynamic, interactive, digital computer odel that can simulate the process of regional development with respect to the interfaces of agriculture, industry. infrastructure, population growth, capital accumulation and allocation, employment, and income. Thus, using this simulation model the policies for infrastructural development can be simulated, tested, and evaluated. The Bicol River Basin area in the Philippines serves as the geographic basis for the model. The syste dynamics methodology is used for building the simulation model. As the foundation of regional devlopment, infrastructure is given special emphasis in this reserach. Infrastructure is broken down into institutional infrastructure -- land reform and compact farm organization, physical infrastructure -- water supply, irrigation, flood control, electric power, recreation, Land use, houseing, and transportation, and social infrastructure -- health, family planning, and education. Themodel is simulated on a CDC-3600 computer with a set of parameters, constants, and initial values representing the present conditions in the Biocl River Basin Region. The simulation results show that the eight infrastructural projects which comprise the Biol River Basin Development Program are inadequate to accomplish "economic take-off" in the region within the next 30 years. For the purpose of demonstrating the capability of the model as a tool for policy testing three policies for infrastructural development -- an accelerated Land reform policy for institutional infrastructure development, a feeder road construction policy for physical infrastructure development, and a negative family planning policy under social infrastructure development -- are simulated using the model and the results evaluated. |
| Year | 1975 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Dissertation ; no. D23 |
| Type | Dissertation |
| School | AIT Publication (Year <=1978) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Dissertation (D) (Year <=1978) |
| Chairperson(s) | Drew, Donald R. |
| Degree | Thesis (Ph.D.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1975 |