PlaceAgents: Modelling Multi-Stop Pedestrian Itineraries as Platial Flows
An itinerary-centred agent-based framework for simulating pedestrian movement on urban networks
Urban life is made by the places that people merge together into formal routines. PlaceAgents is a framework for modelling multi-stop pedestrian itineraries on city networks using open and reproducible data—treating the city as linked places rather than abstract space.
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PlaceCrafter: Curating Urban Functional Regions through Platial Clustering
A web-based geospatial tool for identifying place-based regions in cities using OpenStreetMap data
The world is not just made of streets, buildings, and zones—it is shaped by how people engage and interact with places in their everyday lives. PlaceCrafter supports researchers in identifying platial regions: functional, human-centred areas that cross administrative and formal boundaries.
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Diabetes Disparities in Mexico: A Spatio-Temporal and Marginalization Index Analysis
Presented at W2GIS 2025 in Mexico City
Diabetes remains one of the most pressing global health challenges of the 21st century. In Mexico, the burden of the disease is deeply shaped by social inequalities, with hospitalisations and deaths reflecting broader patterns of deprivation and exclusion. Our recent work, presented by Carlos Hernández Nava at W2GIS 2025, brings a spatio-temporal lens to this urgent problem.
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