Dynamic trip modelling : from shopping centres to the Internet. /

Dynamic trip modelling : from shopping centres to the Internet. /

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Author / Creator:	Baker, Robert G. V.
Imprint:	Dordrecht : Springer, c2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiv, 360 p.) : ill.
Language:	English
Series:	GeoJournal library ; v. 84 GeoJournal library ; v. 84.
Subject:	Space in economics -- Mathematical models. Spatial behavior -- Mathematical models. Shopping centers. Internet. Internet. Shopping centers. Space in economics -- Mathematical models. Spatial behavior -- Mathematical models.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8878098

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ISBN:	9781402043468 1402043465
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Walking from a parked car to a shop, driving to a planned or unplanned shopping centre and virtual exchanges through the Internet are all part of 21st century trips in human activity spaces. This work shows how such a diversity of trips can be linked by a universal vision of spatial interaction modelling.
Other form:	Print version: Baker, Robert G.V. Dynamic trip modelling. Dordrecht : Springer, c2006 1402043457 9781402043451

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxiv, 360 p.) : ill.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781402043468 1402043465