Introduction
- This page is for organising information about my PhD research.
- Contents:
Details
History
- In March 2000 I started a part time PhD. The original proposal was titled: Explaining Geographical Road Traffic Accident Patterns. This rapidly evolved into something more spatially and temporally constrained titled: Investigating the Problem of Personal Injury Road Accident Incidence in Great Britain from 1992 using a Geographical Data Mining Approach.
- In November 2002 after a 6 month deferment and under a slightly modified title: A Geographical Analysis of Personal Injury Road Accident Data in Great Britain since 1992 I completed a Research Support Group (RSG) Upgrade.
- In September 2006 I restarted my PhD with the title Development of a Contemporary Agent Based Model of the UK for Analysing Regional Development and Inter Regional Communications
- I then considered taking steps to publish the work done on the previous topic.
- In October 2008 GENESIS kicked off and with this a good opportunity to complete a PhD given that my current topic overlaps considerably with this project over the next 3 years.
Blog
- 2008-10-22
- Supervision Meeting
- Mark, Andy Evans, Andy Turner
- Summary of Points Discussed
- Visualising Model Error
- System Properties
- Validation
- Parameter sweeps
- Alsion Heppenstall and Kirk Harland
- What gap needs to be filled?
- We don't know enough about social and family networks
- GENESIS
- More employment based
- Insolation
- Where are your family?
- family networks
- CenGem or GemCen?
- 2008-10-14
- Back in the chase for a qualification :-)
- For GENESIS I have started to developed some generative social simulation software.
- I aim to develop something along the lines of the sim genre computer games like Civilisation and SimCity:
- Starting at the early stage of societal development will help establish the genetics and family relationships required to understand contemporary society.
- It will also help understand how to seed contemporary society from incomplete and erroneous data.
- As I am interested in agent based model of daily activity, to some extent it is easier to start with a more simple society of the hunter gatherer and proceed through the early agricultural and waring societies and into the modern age.
- Clearly there is much that goes on in contemporary society and there are many different types of people and organisations.
- A parallel activity will be to develop a model of this.
- 2007-03-22
- 2007-03-08
- Supervisor meeting with Andy Evans
- SupervisoryMeetingSummarySheet.doc
- Summary of points discussed:
- Administration
- Training Plan - this was developed as a document and sent off as required
- Update Andy Evans on the last meeting with Mark Birkin.
- Rene Jordan is taking an RA position to look at housing modelling :)
- Andy Evans is aware of work that has produced general equations on how far people are prepared to travel to work.
- Andy Evans suggested I look at the work of Yong Yang
- Friends Reunited data
- Andy Evans had an agreement to scrape the data but is not sure this is still valid since the sale to ITV.
- ITV may well be interested in this work...
- RDF
- FOAF
- Action by student:
- Produce Supervisory Meeting Summary word documents for the last two meetings.
- Look up work mentioned in this meeting.
- Continue developing a Literature Review and provide drafts to supervisors for feedback.
- Action by supervisor(s):
- Arrange a date for a next meeting.
- Feedback on drafts of Literature Review as appropriate.
- Date of next meeting:
- 2006-11-27
- Speculative email to OFSTED about schools data based on discussions with Kirk Harland.
- Refreshingly speedy reply from OFSTED via the enquiries and the Research Analysis and International (RAI) Division, confirmed that OFSTED do not hold the data I am after, but that I try the DfES database - EduBase
- Chat with Kirk about Journey to School data
- Data split between private and state run schools
- Data for state run schools is easily available from DfES...
- Maybe the only centrally collected data on pupil numbers for all schools might be OFSTED...
- 2006-11-23
- Supervisor meeting with Mark Birkin
- SupervisoryMeetingSummarySheet.doc
- I have found detailed literature on 3 of the five areas...
- Mark keen for me:
- Not to get involved with others code just yet.
- To start writing a literature review based on what I have read.
- Find the other two literature components discussed last time.
- Write a literature review based on what I have read.
- 2 Leads:
- James Laird
- Do people travel further if they earn more?
- Time costs more important than money costs for the reasonably well off.
- World wide demographic simulation from Geographic Information Science and Technology
- Budhendra L. Bhaduri
- Kalyan Perumalla
- Not much there seemingly from the Web Site...
- I don't think I should invest too much time on these leads...
- Summary of points discussed:
- Action by student:
- Start Writing a Literature Review
- Organise a meeting with Andy Evans.
- Action by supervisor(s):
- Feedback on drafts of Literature Review as appropriate.
- Date of next meeting:
- 2006-11-22
- Literature
- Urban Sim Papers
- Paul Waddell and Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson, Introduction to Urban Simulation: Design and Development of Operational Models. In Handbook in Transport, Volume 5: Transport Geography and Spatial Systems, Stopher, Button, Kingsley, Hensher eds. Pergamon Press, 2004, pages 203-236.
- Alan Borning, Paul Waddell, and Ruth Förster, UrbanSim: Using Simulation to Inform Public Deliberation and Decision-Making. Preprint of paper to appear, Digital Government: Advanced Research and Case Studies, Hsinchun Chen et al. (eds.), Springer-Verlag, in press.
- Paul Waddell, UrbanSim: Modeling Urban Development for Land Use, Transportation and Environmental Planning. Preprint of an article that appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 68 No. 3, Summer 2002, pages 297-314.
- Paul Waddell, Alan Borning, Michael Noth, Nathan Freier, Michael Becke and Gudmundur Ulfarsson, Microsimulation of Urban Development and Location Choices: Design and Implementation of UrbanSim. Preprint of an article that appeared in Networks and Spatial Economics, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2003, pages 43--67.
- Paul Waddell, Hana Ševcíková, David Socha, Eric Miller, Kai Nagel, Opus: An Open Platform for Urban Simulation. Presented at the Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management Conference, June, 2005, London, U.K.
- 2006-11-08
- 2006-11-03
- Supervisor meeting with Andy Evans and Mark Birkin
- 2006-11-02
- 2006-11-01
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- 2006-10-05
- Meeting with Oliver-Duke Williams.
- 2006-09-29
- Meeting with Andy Evans and Mark Birkin to discuss if Research Outline is still OK.
- Andy Evans called meeting to re-evaluate MoSeS overlap
- Visualisation of emergent properties and uncertainty (error) are key concerns in large scale modelling
- Climate modellers concerned with this 20 years ago... but didn't find a solution?
- What is going on in the socio-economic domain?
- Use of ensembles for sensitivty testing of data and parameters...
- Peter Allen
- Bifurcation
- Emergence in industrial economies
- Memetic evolution and development
- Birmingham - What is useful for policy makers
- Temporal resolution
- Linkage between yearly time steps and 10 minute time steps
- Title changed to "Development of Agent Based Models of Daily Activity"
- Andy Turner to arrange meeting in two weeks
- Andy Turner to redo outline and present in two weeks
- Andy Turner to register once paper work comes to Val
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