Dynamic Trip Modelling From Shopping Centres to the Internet /

• Main Author: Baker, Robert G. V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: The GeoJournal Library, 84
• Subjects: Geography.; Population.; Demography.; Geography, general.; Population Economics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• An Introduction to Retail and Consumer Modelling
• Dynamic Trip Modelling
• Empirical Testing of the RASTT Model in Time and Space
• Dynamic Modelling of the Internet
• The Socio-Economic and Planning Consequences of Changes to Shopping Trips
• Conclusions.