The increasing complexity of land use/ and environment system together with the constraint of limited resources allocated to the development task of transport modelling are putting pressure on the transport modelling task. Among fast growing computing technologies in recent years, object-oriented concept and component object model (COM) have continued to demonstrate their capability in laying fundamental layers for significant computing frameworks such as Microsoft Windows System. The use of such tools in implementing models of land use/transport and environment system opens up an opportunity to consider the extent to which a component object model framework can be constructed, re-used and customised to flexibly represent more complex models in a more resource effective way. This paper investigates the capability of the object-oriented concept as a candidate for structuring a COM framework for implementing models of land use, transport and environmental impact systems. (A)
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