Author: edmanley

Agent-based Modelling and Geographic Information Science – A Whole Book!

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I’m very excited to report the publishing of our new book on Agent-based Modelling and Geographic Information Science in January 2019! Co-authored with Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, and Alison Heppenstall, the book aims to provide a broad and practical overview of building spatial agent-based models. It includes a vast set of example models, written in …

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Spatiotemporal Variation in Travel Regularity

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It seems life and work is less than compatible with #content generation for this blog, so ‘why don’t I just’, I figure, ‘write a short piece about the research I have been doing in all this time’. I also figured this was a good idea, so here is the first in what I’m going to …

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london, Smart Cities, Transportation

Understanding Cities through Individual-Level Data – Opportunities and Challenges

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As it’s been a while since I last posted, I thought I’d put up something I prepared for a Royal Society Smart Cities and Transportation workshop next week. I’ve focussed on data collected at the individual-level, and the opportunities the data present for better understanding cities, and the challenges the maximisation of these resources face. There are no …
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Cities, data, Smart Cities, Transportation, Urban Systems

One Year Later

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Woah – it’s been a long time since my last blog post. Over a year in fact, yikes, how time flies… Well apologies for my absence, hope you have been keeping well. Since moving to being a Lecturer at UCL CASA I’ve had a little less time to spend on data wrangling and map making. That’s …
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Mapping Connected Places on London’s Public Transport Network

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I haven’t written much on this blog about the work I’m currently doing at UCL CASA.  As a Research Associate working on the Mechanicity with Mike Batty, I’m tasked with drawing meaning out of a massive dataset of Oyster Card tap ins and tap outs across London’s public transport network.  The dataset covers every Oyster …
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Cities, data, london, Mapping and Cartography, Smart Cities, Transportation, Urban Systems

A Framework for Agent-based Model Design

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Model design is one of the most important stages of the development of any agent-based model.  Get the design wrong and you might find yourself tied up in knots, battling against the structure of the project you defined months before.  Get it right and you’ll leave yourself a extensible platform to develop into, allowing yourself …
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ABM, Agent Based Modelling, Complex Systems, emergence, model design

Navigating the City: Minimising Distance but NOT Minimal Distance

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I’ve always had a problem with the pervasive assumption in transportation research that everyone takes the shortest metric distance path when travelling between A and B. This idea doesn’t seem to have any solid foundations in research, and intuiti…
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Cognition and Behaviour, Navigation, Route Choice, Spatial Behaviour, Spatial Modelling, Transportation, Urban Systems

Modelling Movement in the City: The Influence of Individuals

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‘Modelling Movement in the City: The Influence of Individuals’ was the title of a talk I gave at the AGILE conference in Avignon, France last week. For the conference I actually initially prepared a poster that never ended up seeing the light of d…
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ABM, Agent Based Modelling, Cities, Cognition and Behaviour, Complex Systems, london, Route Choice, Spatial Modelling, Transportation