A systematic review and meta-analysis of interaction models between transportation networks and territories

Abstract

Modeling and simulation in urban and regional studies has always given a significant place to models relating the dynamics of territories with transportation networks. These include for example Land-use Transport Interaction models, but this question has been investigated from different viewpoints and disciplines. We propose in this paper a systematic review to construct a corpus of such models, followed by a meta-analysis of model characteristics. A statistical analysis provides links between temporal and spatial scale of models, their level of interdisciplinarity, and the paper year, with disciplines, type of model and methodology. We unveil in particular strong disciplinary discrepancies in the type of approach taken. This study provides a basis for novel and interdisciplinary approaches to modeling interactions between transportation networks and territories.

An interdisciplinary bibliometric analysis of models for land-use and transport interactions

“…We provide an interdisciplinary bibliometric study, from citation and semantic viewpoint, confirming the diversity and complementarity of approaches. The companion paper of this work [Raimbault, 2020b] aims at understanding with more details and more exhaustively the content of each field and corresponding models.…”

“…The entry we take here to sketch an overview of models is complementary to the one taken by [Raimbault, 2018a] (first chapter) and by [Raimbault, 2020b], by declining them through their main ontology of network-territories interactions: the relations Network → Territory, Territory → Network and Territory ↔ Network. In this notation, a direct arrow corresponds to processes that we can relatively univocally attribute to the origin, whereas a reciprocal arrow assumes the intrinsic existence of reciprocal interactions, generally in coincidence with the emergence of entities playing a role in these.…”

“…We make here the choice to gather numerous approaches having the common characteristic to principally model the evolution of landuse, on medium temporal and spatial scales. The unity and the relative positioning of these approaches covering from economics to planning, remain an open question, to which [Raimbault, 2020b] introduces elements of answer through a systematic review and meta-analysis approach. Their general principle is to model and simulate the evolution of the spatial distribution of activities, taking transportation networks as a context and significant drivers of relocations.…”

“…It includes seven "key" references identified for each of the disciplines previously described. The aim here is not to be exhaustive (it is in the companion paper [Raimbault, 2020b]), but to construct a description of the neighbourhood of domains we deal with, and give a glimpse of their articulation. It is tailored here to have a reasonable size (leading to a final network that can be processed without a specific method regarding the size of data), but the methods used here have been developed on massive datasets, for example with patent data [Bergeaud et al, 2017], the full bibliography of [Raimbault, 2018a] (appendix F).…”

“…Our study is not exhaustive but combines diverse viewpoints usually not combined. A companion paper [Raimbault, 2020b] provides a complementary approach, with a systematic review and meta-analysis of model characteristics, and a more exhaustive corpus construction.…”