Agent-based modelling of urban land-use development: modelling and simulating households and economic activities location choice Online publication date: Mon, 06-May-2019
by Youssef Bouanan; Seghir Zerguini; Nathalie Gaussier
International Journal of Service and Computing Oriented Manufacturing (IJSCOM), Vol. 3, No. 4, 2018
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.
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