Agent Based Modelling and GIS
Just been released by Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley & Alison Heppenstall. Essential reading on ABM. Proud that it has come from our extended group in CASA and Leeds. I wrote the foreword. Click on the text to buy a copy.
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Author Archives: Michael Batty
Cities in a Completely Urbanised World
By the end of this century, we will all be living in Cities but what does this really mean? I have given various talks and written various editorials on this prospect but have never really thought much about what this … Continue reading
Posted in city size, Hierarchy, rank size, Scaling
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A History of Transport Modelling
Certainly one of the best books ever on transport modelling. We have been waiting for this sort of book for a long time. Anyone who wants to figure out the reasons why different kinds of transport model have been developed … Continue reading
Posted in Flows, Interactions, LUTI models, Transport Models, Urban Models
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The Fractured Nature of British Politics
The Morning After: Predictions closer than all of us thought, a Divided Britain Carlos, Elsa, Duncan and myself (Mike) decided to explore next week’s British election using some of our social physics, specifically our work on uncovering urban hierarchies through percolation … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Hierarchy, Scaling
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