Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling in Urban and Regional Systems by Jean-Claude Thill

Author:Jean-Claude Thill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

Methodology

Randomness, Time and Behavior in Spatial Interactions

The observation of population migration within the United Kingdom at the end of the nineteenth century led several authors to describe empirical spatial interaction laws (Ravenstein 1889), which were then formalized by analogy to the physical law of gravitation (Reilly 1929, 1931; Stewart 1947; Huff 1964; Tobler 1970). Hence the emergence of spatial interaction theory as a field of research examining the location and flow of social and economic processes, emphasizing the role of the attractiveness of places and their relative distances. Spatial interaction models have since evolved in different directions (Roy 2004), including three that are particularly important for this study: probabilistic treatment, cumulative dynamics, and explicit consideration of individual behavior. In the following section, we position our work with respect to these three evolutions.

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