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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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Miller, H.J. (2017). Time Geography. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1383
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