Journal on Policy & Complex Systems Volume 3, Issue 2 | Page 68

Dynamics of Intergovernmental Networks
less than 15 % of their submitted projects get funded and implemented . Second , as shown in Figure 5b , the spatial grids present four distinct states of local towns at the end of the 50-year simulation horizon : ( a ) yellow pixels represent towns that have successfully funded and implemented all of their submitted projects , ( b ) red pixels represent towns that keep on waiting to get even a single project funded during the simulation horizon , ( c ) black pixels represent towns that have not submitted even a single project during the simulation horizon , and ( d ) green pixels represent local towns that have at least one of their submitted projects funded
and under construction . We have the ability to replace this hypothetical grid-based representation of the local towns with actual local towns for more practitioner-oriented ABMs ; however , the underlying stochastic nature of this ABM implies that the forecast for each local town might not be as precise as would be expected in more process-oriented deterministic simulation models . Our focus here is rather to ascertain the big picture project funding and implementation patterns across local towns , for which purpose such hypothetical grids are traditionally used in the ABM community .
Figure 5a . Simulated allocation of roadway project funding across RPCs under reference scenario ( years on X-axis ).
Figure 5b . Simulated success rates of roadway projects across local towns under reference scenario .
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