It turns out that most people also move less than 10km on a regular basis, according to the study published in the journal Nature.

Mobile phone data is not widely available and while interesting to track general movement where it become of more use is via GPS and the movements of crowds. Currenty GPS handsets are expensive and battery hungry but in the next few years we are going to be increasingly ‘location aware’ allowing better understanding of our movement in cities.

See Mobile phones expose human habits

Also for those interested see our post on the Nature Network ‘Connected to the World but not the City‘ for a view of location based services and the prospect of mass market gps enabled devices.

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Yesterday’s post covered our first steps, developing ‘Ant Like’ behaviors on a surface, our next movie displays a degree of intelligence in our agents:

The agents are now aware of the environment around them and each other, as such they avoid collisions while wandering around the surface. As we mentioned this is ‘first step’ work and we are aware that there are advanced crowd simulations out there. We are taking a slightly different approach and as ever with the blog we will write a tutorial on the system soon as its more advanced.

It would be interesting to hear any thoughts on this line of posts and if you would like to know more about agents take a look at http://gisagents.blogspot.com/

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