Modelling Spatial Patterns of Outdoor Physical Activities using Mobile Sports Tracking Application Data

The paper presents a workflow for collecting, structuring and processing geo-referenced recreational mobility data from a sports tracking application as to monitor recreational usage of urban spaces. The data collected include GPS trajectories of people walking, jogging, and running for recreational purposes in European cities. The presented...

Towards 3D raster GIS: On developing a raster engine for spatial DBMS

Three-dimensional (3D) raster are simple representations, which have long been used for modelling continuous phenomena such as geological and medical objects. However, they can result in large data sets when high resolution is used, which poses challenges to algorithms for vector-to-raster conversion and data storage. This paper presents a...

Easiest paths for walking and cycling: Combining syntactic and geographic analyses in studying walking and cycling mobility

We discuss fundamentals of a new computational approach to configurative analysis and synthesis and present a number of advancements we have made in the direction of computational analysis of walking and cycling mobility. We have scrutinized the notion of distance and addressed it in correspondence with the notion of geodesic or optimum path. We...

A syntactic design methodology: Integrating real-time space syntax analysis in a configurative architectural design process

Designing for Pedestrians: A configurative approach to neighborhood planning and design, promoting pedestrian mobility, using an interactive computational design method for 'polycentric distribution of built space' according to walkability, attractions and topographic features

Parametric 'route structure' generation and analysis: An interactive design system application for urban design

Marshall (2005) developed the concept of characteristic structure of a street network as a characteristic set of indicators extracted from the street network through a process which he called “route structure analysis”. In this paper we propose an integrated process for street network generation and route structure analysis embedded in a...

Configurbanist: Urban Configuration Analysis for Walking and Cycling via Easiest Paths

In a quest for promoting sustainable modes of mobility, we have revisited how feasible and suitable is it for people to walk or cycle to their destinations in a neighbourhood. We propose a few accessibility measures based on an 'Easiest Path' algorithm that provides also actual temporal distance between locations. This algorithm finds paths that...