An urban environment can be abstracted in form of a street network in order to be further analysed structurally. The urban street network can be represented in various ways by taking different principles and constraints into account. Therefore the aim of this work is to investigate human behaviour and communication in emerged urban phenomena, namely traffic flow and wayfinding, by structural characterization of an appropriate representation of an urban street network and modifying the conventional methods. / In order to characterize the depicted urban street network, centrality measure and specifically betweenness centrality is utilized. This analysis is then implemented to characterize the studied urban phenomena with respect to their structural, temporal and dynamic properties. In case of studying only the structural properties of the phenomena such as route description or self localization the conventional betweenness centrality is performed. But in case of studying the dynamic and temporal properties of a phenomenon such as traffic flow a modified version of betweenness centrality is proposed which considers dynamic and temporal aspects of human travel behaviour. / Experiments are designed to test the implementation of the suggested methods in the studied urban phenomena. The results of experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed model in characterization of the studied urban phenomena in this thesis and then mention some of the problems and potential areas for future works.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/284238 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Kazerani, Aisan |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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