Growth and Decay of a City

Team: 26

School: CEPi1

Area of Science: Civil Engineering

Interim: “The Problem” as we see it:
As time passes, the focal point of economic prowess within a city gradually moves from place to place.
The ability to predict how areas of a city will develop from an economic standpoint can help one decide where to focus their investments.
Building somewhere that will never develop fully, or will quickly diminish, can hurt businesses, as well as the value of homes within the area.
To be able to see where the economic focus of a city is shifting, and how certain developments may influence this action, can allow businesses and home buyers to invest more reliably and safely, and could easily benefit the economic status of a city as a whole.


Our “Solution to the Problem”, through computational means:
We plan to construct a simulator, in which one can “build” a city.
The simulation will allow you to freely move between different points of time over a large timescale of many years. You will also be allowed the ability to modify your city at these individual points in time.
The simulation will predict the city's state in-between, and beyond these points in time, based on the data given. Entering known data will allow the simulator to predict the overall status of a city at any given point in time. This will provide data allowing investors to make educated decisions based on likely future developments.


The “Current State” of our Project:
At this time, we are developing “Software Requirements Specification” (SRS) to exactly describe the function of the simulator we will be constructing.
Doing so will allow us to streamline the development of the simulator itself.
We are just beginning research into obtaining the data that will be required to make the method of operation of the simulator accurate.


“Expectations”:
We believe that when we are fully satisfied with our results, we will be able to not only model a city, but accurately predict just how it will develop over time.
It is our intention to do so with such accuracy that we will be able to model a real city, such as Albuquerque, resulting in data that will actually be usable by anyone who might find it of interest.

Team Members:

  Jesse Romero
  Dallas RZN

Sponsoring Teacher: Jerry Esquivel

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