Participatory Modelling

While redfish was in Venice last fall, we conceived of a multy-layered "participatory modelling" framework. This is a mixture of participatory planning and dynamic or reactive modeling. The idea is to create consensus about the agent behavior in the underlying traffic model, while adding a second-order, "bottom line" model to represent the truly significant impacts of traffic regulations on each stakeholder group, which includes the Municipality, as well as taxi boat drivers, cargo boat drivers, gondoliers and individual boat owners.