Applications of cellular automata simulation in urban planning and design?

From: Chad Bailey (chadrbailey_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/02/04

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    Has anyone heard of applications of cellular automata models in the
    design and planning of land use, transportation, etc.? Los Alamos
    National Lab developed the TRANSIMS model, which does just that, but
    it's pretty exclusive right now to a few geeks who have sufficient
    computational power to run it. TRANSIMS simulates an urban population
    as autonomous agents that make travel choices. Seems like a great
    idea, but only geeks with high computing power can use it right now.

    It seems like intelligent urban planning needs such a model. Has
    anyone heard of applications where such an approach might have been
    used, and what the outcomes were, perhaps relative to other urban
    planning applications?


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