Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
BBC, Ford and Microsoft use its service and it is essential for drivers all across the world. So who exactly is INRIX? 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
SINGAPORE - The Housing and Development Board will soon be able to make better and more informed decisions on sustainable urban planning initiatives - such as which public housing blocks should have green roofs or solar panels. A Memorandum of Understanding to test-bed a new complex systems modeling tool was signed between the HDB, Electricite de France and VEOLIA Environement Recherche et Innovation yesterday at the World Cities Summit. The complex Systems Model simulates the built environment of a city and its impact on resource use, environment, people and costs. Click on the headline to learn more...
Scoop.it!
Each year, crowd disasters happen in different areas of the world. How and why do such disasters happen? Are the fatalities caused by relentless behavior of people or a psychological state of panic that makes the crowd 'go mad'? Or are they a tragic consequence of a breakdown of coordination? These and other questions are addressed, based on a qualitative analysis of publicly available videos and materials, which document the planning and organization of the Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany, and the crowd disaster on July 24, 2010. Our analysis reveals a number of misunderstandings that have widely spread.
Crowd Disasters as Systemic Failures: Analysis of the Love Parade Disaster http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds7 Via Complexity Digest
Scoop.it!
Games and games technology often inspire and sometimes lead the simulation industry. Over the years Sim City has been instrumental in many people learning about simulations, urban planning and land use in and outside of a class room. The next generation of Sim City is likely to do that and set expectations on what City Simulations should look like. :-) Great article at Gamasutra on the design and aesthetic of the new version and how it relates to the underpinning simulation. Learn more...
Scoop.it!
Call for Papers: Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations. People, crowds and rich urban environment, present a challenging simulation problem for AI and multi-agent systems, with numerous applications ranging from fun (games) to very serious (urban planning or security studies)...
|
Scoop.it!
Telvent GIT, S.A., an IT solutions and information provider for a sustainable world, announced today that it is working together with the Chinese cities of Nanning, Fushun and Erdos to transform the way these major cities are managed at present. The company will implement its SmartMobility technology aimed at intelligent urban and mobility management to enable local authorities to make the most of their road infrastructures. These cities are expected to lower the current number of traffic delays by over 35% and the inner-city commute rate is anticipated to drop by around 15%. Click headline to learn more
Scoop.it!
Interesting article on social-ethographic research and social cognition. Key quote "it is important to pay attention to what people articulate as their own understanding of how social processes work and how they as individuals might negotiate the complex social terrain, rather than simply looking at their actions…." Worth a read
Scoop.it!
Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be ‘self-organized’. Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that ‘top-down’ approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a ‘bottom-up’ approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states. This book shows how some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, including traffic flow, economic markets, opinion formation and the growth and structure of cities. Via Complexity Digest
Scoop.it!
For me, Mike Batty is one of the defining thought leaders on the science of cities. He is Professor of Planning at University College London where he run's one of the UK's most important research centers for spatial systems - the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). This his blog and its a delight and information rich.. Read more...
Scoop.it!
Mike Batty at CASA - leads some of the UK's most pioneering R&D in advanced spatial systems. This is a must read if you are interested in complex systems and city development. Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals (9780262524797): Michael Batty: Books (Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Frac...)... Via Farshad Saadatmand
|
As part of our research in agent based modeling we have spent some time experimenting with traffic modeling in different platforms such as Mason, Gamma and MatSim as well as our own in house tools. This research led us to look at data sources and toolsets around the same time that Waze was starting to get tech blog press in the United States. Outside of California - we didnt hear much about Waze - the company we kept running into was INRIX. As we spoke with researchers and transport planning departments, traffic forecastor and traffic and transport industry experts, INRIX inevitably got mentioned. In fact if you have listened to traffic forecast in Europe - its odds on that you have heard someone using INRIX data. Yet many people have not heard of the company or the types of products they offer. INRIX are a real traffic big data success story and as a company they have an awesome singular mission - 'solve traffic worldwide'. If you are undertaking city planning, traffic and transport research you need to know who they are, the products they offer and how they may be able to help you. If your not - then just check out their traffic apps they will help you get from A to B safely and efficiently! Either way to get you started this is a great introductory article on what the company does.