Category Archives: LUTI models

A History of Transport Modelling

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Michael Batty

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 →

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Rediscovering the Old Days

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Michael Batty

I first met Leo Kadanoff in Cambridge, England in the summer of 1974, I think. He would not remember me but he had been invited to give a talk on urban dynamics at the second Cambridge Land Use and Built … Continue reading →

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The Requiem Revisited

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Michael Batty

40 years ago, Douglass B Lee published his notorious article “Requiem for Large Scale Models” in the Journal of the American Institute of Planners on the demise of the first generation of urban computer models in the United States. In … Continue reading →

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