Coupling agent-based, cellular automata and logistic regression into a hybrid urban expansion model (HUEM) ; HUEM

peer reviewed ; Several methods for modeling urban expansion are available. Most of them are based on a statistical, a cellular automaton (CA) and/or an agent-based (AB) approach. Statistical and CA approaches are based on the implicit assumption that people's behavior is not likely to change over the considered time horizon. Such assumption limits the ability to simulate long-term predictions as people's behavior changes over time. An approach to consider people's behavior is the use of an AB system, in which the decision-making process of agents needs to be parameterized. Most existing studi... Mehr ...