The thesis of this book is that there are one set of equations that can define any trip between an origin and destination. The idea originally came from work that I did when applying the hydrodynamic analogy to study congested traffic flows in 1981. However, I was disappointed to find out that much of the mathematical work had already been done decades earlier. When I looked for a new application, I realised that shopping centre demand could be like a longitudinal wave, governed by centre opening and closing times. Further, a solution to the differential equation was the gravity model and this suggested that time was somehow part of distance decay. This was published in 1985 and represented a different approach to spatial interaction modelling. The next step was to translate the abstract theory into something that could be tested empirically. To this end, I am grateful to my Ph. D supervisor, Professor Barry Garner who taught me that it is not sufficient just to have a theoretical model. This book is an outcome of this on-going quest to look at how the evolution of the model performs against real world data. This is a far more difficult process than numerical simulations, but the results have been more valuable to policy formulation, and closer to what I think is spatial science. The testing and application of the model required the compilation of shopping centre surveys and an Internet data set.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781402043451
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-4345-1
- Verlag: Springer
- Erscheinungstermin: 03.07.2006
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2006. Auflage 2006
- Serie: GeoJournal Library
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1600 g
- Seiten: 364
- Format (B x H x T): 167 x 252 x 22 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Mathematik | Informatik
- EDV | Informatik
- Professionelle Anwendung
- Computersimulation & Modelle, 3-D Graphik
- Interdisziplinäres
- Wissenschaften
- Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
- Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
- Interdisziplinäres
- Wissenschaften
- Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
- Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften