Title: Agent-based modelling of urban land-use development: modelling and simulating households and economic activities location choice

Authors: Youssef Bouanan; Seghir Zerguini; Nathalie Gaussier

Addresses: University Bordeaux, Lab. GREThA, UMR CNRS 5113, 33608, Pessac, France ' University Bordeaux, Lab. GREThA, UMR CNRS 5113, 33608, Pessac, France ' University Bordeaux, Lab. GREThA, UMR CNRS 5113, 33608, Pessac, France

Abstract: This article aims to respond to growing concerns about sustainable urbanisation, which in recent years have generated a need for prospective assessment in the field of transport and land-use planning, by predicting future land-use development. We introduce a land use model (part LU of a land use transport interaction model) which aims to simulate households and economic activities location choice within an urban system. We use the agent-based approach to simulate location choices to account for land use changes and to estimate residential and economic activities location. This is a dynamic bottom-up approach with the households and the firms as their basic components. The MUST-B model considers the agents' location choices according to the utility theory and the equilibrium between real estate supply and demand. The model is used to simulate urban land-use development in the urban area of Bordeaux, France.

Keywords: land use; agent-based modelling; location choice; accessibility; decision support system.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSCOM.2018.099454

International Journal of Service and Computing Oriented Manufacturing, 2018 Vol.3 No.4, pp.253 - 273

Received: 16 Feb 2018
Accepted: 24 Apr 2018
Published online: 06 May 2019 *

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