Modelling human displacement through movement surfaces
Year: 2009
Type: book
Abstract: This paper introduces a new approach for predicting people displacement by means of movement surfaces. These surfaces can allow the simulation of a person’s movement through the use of semantic movement concepts such as those making up the environment, the people who are moving, events that describe a human activity, and time of occurrences. In order to represent this movement we have transformed the trajectory of a person or group of persons into a raindrop path over a surface. As a raindrop flows over a surface looking for the maximum slopes, people flow over the landscape looking for the maximum utility. The movement surfaces are the response to a chained succession of events describing the way a person moves from one destination to another passing through the most affine trajectory to his interest. The three construction phases of this modelling approach (exploration, reasoning and prediction) are presented in this paper. The model was implemented in Protege and a Java application was developed to generate the movement surface based on a recreational scenario. The results had shown the opportunity to apply our approach to optimise the accessibility of recreational areas according to the preferences of the users of that location.
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2154397171