I think Mike's paper and Shinichi's work suggests that to some degree the
concept of transport network planning, which is a different and well
established discipline, has strong (and perhaps inevitable) links with
conventional space syntax research. In addition transport planning based
research appears to be a somewhat more developed version of the Space
syntax research as it generally includes parameters other than space (i.e.
network) such as traffic (i.e. whether road, rail etc.) load, road types,
nature of transport, gravity models and many others into account during
modelling while space syntax, in my view, starts and ends with generation
of mostly "topological" (i.e. not neccessarily real) networks and
characterising them using graph measures.
Perhaps, I am actually wondering whether this overlap enpowers or
challenges the methodology of conventional space syntax techniques.
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