http://www.rudi.net/node/21530
Accessible, legible and walkable urban spaces, supported by a rich mix of urban uses, cycling routes, public transport and sustainable travel solutions, attract people and encourage activity. A RUDI one-day event was held on 10 June 2009 as part of the 2009 Transport Modelling Forum to explore a range of approaches, being developed by transport planners, urban designers and academics, that aim to understand how people move around and interact in towns and cities. Slides and oral presentations from the event are available online. These include:
- Adapting traditional transport-oriented models for pedestrians;
- What pedestrian modeling means today: a review of the different kinds of modeling now possible with applied examples from Oxford Circus and elsewhere;
- The Urban ISM model: assessing street networks and movement patterns. Urban ISM (Integrated Spatial Model) is a suite of software tools and methodologies for integrating the principal elements that make places work. The approach can examine a range of city and neighbourhood scales, assessing urban structure/movement, land use mix/density, social infrastructure and development viability;
- Understanding walking and cycling through a multi-methods approach which combines spatial network analysis (Multiple Centrality Assessment) and qualitative approaches such as ethnography and audio travel diaries;
- How advances in mobile and wireless communications have enabled us to detect and record the presence and movement of users and their devices. This data provides a rich source of information for understanding people’s relationship with the city. An analysis of urban Bluetooth data and visualisation techniques can be used to model and make sense of the spatial and temporal patterns of mobility, presence and encounter within these data.
