Figure 3
The simulation dashboard shows multiple adjustable sliders, buttons, and graphs. At the top left, the logo “SUSTAIN Green and Urban Sustainability” is shown. To its right is a row of rectangular buttons labeled from left to right as follows: “Home Page,” “Tutorial,” “Decision board,” “Land occupation control,” “Transport status,” “Environmental control,” and “Key scores.” Below it, five sections are arranged in a horizontal series, labeled from left to right as follows: “PUBLIC BUILDINGS,” “PUBLIC HOUSING,” “TRANSPORT,” “WATER MANAGEMENT,” and “WASTE and ENVIRONMENT.” Each section contains sliders and numeric labels. Under “PUBLIC BUILDINGS,” four sliders are labeled “new Hospitals,” “new Schools,” “new Business units,” and “new hectares for Leisure and Sport areas,” each with numeric ranges and cost indications beside them. Under “PUBLIC HOUSING,” four sliders are labeled “new houses,” “new N Z houses,” and “conversion of houses into N Z,” each with corresponding numeric ranges. Under “TRANSPORT,” four sliders are labeled “new Traditional public vehicles,” “new Electric public vehicles,” “incentives for private electric vehicles adoption,” and “new lane kilometers of roads,” each with numeric ranges and costs. Under “WATER MANAGEMENT,” two sliders are labeled “Investment in wastewater infrastructure” and “Investments in water purification.” Under “WASTE and ENVIRONMENT,” two sliders are labeled “investment on recycling processes” and “new Parks.” At the middle center, three rectangular buttons in a vertical series are labeled “Advance,” “Run,” and “Restore,” with corresponding descriptions: “advance the simulation of 1 year and make new decisions for that year,” “simulate from year 0 to the end, directly,” and “reset simulation and all decisions to default value (0).” To their left, two text boxes in a vertical series are labeled “Income of this year 145 M” and “Total investment of this year 107 M.” A circular toggle button is positioned above this area. Below the sliders, three graphs are displayed in a horizontal series. In the left graph, the vertical axis ranges from 350 k to 390 k, and the horizontal axis is labeled “Years” and ranges from 0 to 20, with a blue downward-sloping line labeled “Population.” In the middle graph, the vertical axis ranges from 0 k to 20 k, and the horizontal axis is labeled “Years” and ranges from 0 to 20, showing a blue line labeled “immigration” and a red line labeled “outmigration,” both slightly curving over time. In the right graph, the vertical axis is labeled “Euros” and ranges from 0 to 500 M, and the horizontal axis is labeled “Years” and ranges from 0 to 20, with a blue upward-sloping line labeled “City budget.” Below the graph, a blue rectangle contains the text “Actual City budget 476 M dollars.”Example of simulation results. Source: Authors’ own work