Mike Batty:
> Space Syntax represents the network and that is all and even that is
> problematic as it is not the network that most transport planners use.
> Most transport models begin with the network as a planar graph assumed,
> modelling flows through all kinds of human behavioral models from
> transport activity to discrete choice to gravitational. There is 50 or
> more years of work in this area with many many journals. and an extremely
> activity community world wide.
[AP]
This sounds like a Khunian 'paradigm problem' to me. Perhaps the
non-planarity of the axial representation is the solution rather than the
problem?
Alan
|