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Time Geography

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Activity analysis; Activity theory; Autonomy, space time; Constraints, capability; Constraints, coupling; Constraints, authority; Anchors, space-time; Prism, space-time; Prism, network time; Path, space-time; Location-aware; Regional sience; Activities, fixed; Activities flexible

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Time geography is an individualistic, bottom-up approach to analyzing and simulating human phenomena such as transportation, urban and socio-economic systems. Time geography examines how humans allocate scarce time resources among activities in geographic space, the use of transportation and communication technologies to facilitate this allocation, and the patterns and relationships that emerge from these allocations across the population.

Although researchers and practitioners have utilized the time geographic perspective for over 30 years, it was limited by problems in collecting, storing and analyzing the detailed spatio‐temporal data required. Technological and scientific developments...

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Harvey J. Miller

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Miller, H. (2008). Time Geography. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_1383

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