Agent-Based Urban Dynamics Simulation to Analyze Effects of Street Attractiveness and Tramway for an Urban Sprawl

In this study, we propose an agent-based model (ABM) that expresses simplifed urban dynamics and verify how policies that affect the daily travel of urban residents bring about a change of an urban structure toward a desirable formation indirectly. The policies include a location of a public facility where residents drop by during their daily commute, measures to promote street attractiveness around such a facility, and ones on transportation such as laying tramway in an urban central area. As a result, we clarified significant differences of improvement effects on an urban structure depending on the locations of a facility, the implementation scale of each promotional measure around the facility, and also demonstrated the synergy effects of the policy on transportation.

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