A linear programing model for use in guiding urban floodplain management

Modern planning seeks better solutions to urban flood problems through floodplain management practices involving coordinated land use and engineering approaches. Land use control can be integrated with dams, levees, channel works, etc., but the physical and economic interrelationships must be taken into account. Trade‐offs require quantification of the economic impacts of dissimilar alternatives. A computational technique employing linear programing to determine the optimum combination of flood control works and land development policies is applied to the Tucson situation and found to yield information helpful for floodplain management.