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

TL;DR

This paper systematically reviews and meta-analyzes models linking transportation networks and territories, revealing disciplinary differences and providing a foundation for interdisciplinary modeling approaches.

Contribution

It constructs a comprehensive corpus of such models and analyzes their characteristics, linking model features to disciplines, scales, and methodologies.

Findings

Disciplinary discrepancies in modeling approaches

Links between model scale and discipline

Foundation for interdisciplinary modeling

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.