Dear Anonymous,
Many thanks for your question!
The claim makes good sense to me. That is the reason that the natural
streets are the best representation at the city scale. Herewith the
comments I shared with Axwoman users:
"Axwoman can auto-generate axial lines, but natural streets are much
better than axial lines at a city scale for illustrating the underlying
scaling or for predicting traffic flow:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/1918773_Self-organized_Natural_Roads_for_Predicting_Traffic_Flow_A_Sensitivity_Study
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/1764726_Street-Based_Topological_Representations_and_Analyses_for_Predicting_Traffic_Flow_in_GIS"
Also the kind of topological analysis is not simply about correlation
between metrics and traffic flow, BUT the underlying living structure of
far more the less-connected than the well-connected:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316845391_Why_Topology_Matters_in_Spatial_Cognition_and_Analysis
Cheers.
Bin
On 6/30/2017 9:21 AM, SUBSCRIBE SPACESYNTAX Anonymous wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw this paper today: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7548043
> While its methodology has some major academic issues, they claim: "Using space syntax methodology and techniques, researchers should be familiar with investigated area, because the cartographic analysis and automation of the axial map creating process significantly reduces credibility of the results. Knowing real city street network it is hard to accept the street network model provided by AxWoman software is correct."
> I'm wondering if someone (especially Prof Jiang, as the developer of AxWoman) may have any comments on this claim.
>
> Thanks,
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