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Title: | Dynamic Trip Modelling: From Shopping Centres to the Internet | Contributor(s): | Baker, RG (author) | Publication Date: | 2006 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/702 | Abstract: | 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. | Publication Type: | Book | Publisher: | Springer | Place of Publication: | Dordrecht, Netherlands | ISBN: | 1402043457 | Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: | 200203 Consumption and Everyday Life | HERDC Category Description: | A1 Authored Book - Scholarly | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21039183 | Extent of Pages: | 360 | Series Name: | The GeoJournal Library | Series Number : | 84 |
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