Category: Route Choice

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