Category Archives: Urban (LUTI) Models

Spatial Interaction

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Michael Batty

Tweet Nothing like a lecture course to force you to publish digital copies of what one has written. Retrieved a 2 page article, more an entry, on spatial interaction from the Encyclopaedia of Geographic Information Science edited by Karen Kemp, … Continue reading →

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Simulating Employment Location

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Michael Batty

TweetAs part of our ARCADIA project, we are taking employment forecasts for different sectors from Cambridge Econometrics input-output model, and then simulating location using two-stage regression. This in turn provides the inputs to our LUTI models. There is detail of the … Continue reading →

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Smarter Cities

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Michael Batty

Tweet Use the Player Bar above for Audio. A Webinar to the Urban Systems Collaborative organized by the IBM Smart Cities Group in Armonk, NY focusing on CASA’s work on tracking, measuring, modeling and visualizing city systems. For a glance at the … Continue reading →

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Is Digital Simulation the Same as Physical Experimentation?

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Michael Batty

Tweet Simulation models test theories against data we cannot reproduce in the physical environment their theory relates to. We cannot experiment on the real thing. But how different are simulations from experiments? In Science in Age of Computer Simulation, Winsberg … Continue reading →

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Movies Are Now Online

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Michael Batty

Tweet Put my experiments with movies online. The current one is that based on linking our desktop LUTI model to Google Earth. Click here. No sound yet and still getting used to the capture. Click to explore the full Tyndall … Continue reading →

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