An Assessment of Three Microcomputer Software Packages for Planning Analysis

Abstract Planning's first computer revolution began in the early 1960s. It floundered in the mid-1970s in the face of the profession's unrealistic expectations for computers, changing federal budget priorities, and the practical difficulties of access and use with the expensive and delicate computer equipment, arcane control languages, and custom-written software of the era. Its influence on planning practice was limited primarily to specialized technical areas, such as transportation planning and econometric modeling.