Highlights
Sites responds to the need for portfolio selection to be as efficient or cost-effective as possible, given the competing social and economic demands for land and water. It also addresses the concern that portfolio design should be repeatable, so that it can be readily re-evaluated and modified over time as conditions change and new information is acquired.
Sites assists planners in sorting through a large volume of data to identify good initial solutions to this complex, multi-objective problem.
The planning team must still review the initial solutions and modify them using local knowledge, judgment, and other evidence not considered in the planning approach.