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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Category Archives: Flows
Smart Cities by Anthony Townsend: A Review
Asked by Built Environment to review this some 18 months after it was first published, the world of smart cities has moved on so fast at the level of how we use personal devices to navigate, shop, search etc. that Anthony … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Complexity, Flows, Information, Smart Cities, Urban Models
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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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Gravity Models Circa 1846
Once in a while along comes a wonderful piece of historical research that again illustrates that in most fields, there is little new under the sun. Andrew Odlyzko’s recent paper entitled “The forgotten discovery of gravity models and the inefficiency … Continue reading
Posted in Connectivity, Economies of scale, Flows, Interactions, power laws, Scaling
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