CAST – City Analysis Simulation Tool: An Integrated Model of Land Use, Population, Transport, and Economics

Jankovic, L; Hopwood, W.; Alwan, Z.

Abstract

The paper reports on research into city modelling based on principles of
Science of Complexity. It focuses on integration of major processes in cities, such as
economics, land use, transport and population movement. This is achieved using an
extended Cellular Automata model, which allows cells to form networks, and operate
on individual financial budgets. There are 22 cell types with individual processes in
them. The formation of networks is based on supply and demand mechanisms for
products, skills, accommodation, and services. Demand for transport is obtained as
an emergent property of the system resulting from the network connectivity and
relevant economic mechanisms. Population movement is a consequence of
mechanisms in the housing and skill markets. Income and expenditure of cells are
self-regulated through market mechanisms and changing patterns of land use are a
consequence of collective interaction of all mechanisms in the model, which are
integrated through emergence.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: CUPUM '05: Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management
• Start Date: Jun 29, 2005
• End Date: Jul 1, 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Deposit Date: Oct 14, 2024
• Book Title: CUPUM '05: Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management - Abstracts of the 9th International Conference
• ISBN: ‎9780955058103