Year: 2002
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Analyzing the behavior of socio‐technical systems ‐ large urban populations interacting under constraints imposed by technical infrastructure ‐ poses many interesting problems. We describe why simulation is an appropriate experimental method for studying these systems, drawing examples from the development and implementation of the Transportation Analysis and Simulation System (TRANSIMS). TRANSIMS is an urban planning tool that combines census data and household surveys with a description of the transportation network to produce estimates of human mobilty. It iteratively evaluates hundreds of thousands of coupled non‐linear models to produce a solution to a million‐person game.
Source: AIP conference proceedings
DOI: 10.1063/1.1487541
Author: Stephen G. Eubank
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: G1702950523, G2713861829, G797745481
OpenAlex ID: W1602082003