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Re:A Tool Lets Urban Planners See The Potential Impact Of Th... by matt4077 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @02:14PM (#17897937)
Congrats for the PR successes, and also for turning what I can only assume was a worrying SimCity habit into a career & a tool for good.

To expand that SimCity analogy to its breaking point: I've long fantasised a game/simulator crossover that tries to get as close as possible to simulate a city. Down to, say, individual agent's decision to eat out or shop for groceries, and the resulting traffic etc.

Is that something you see happening in the (longish-term) future?

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Re:A Tool Lets Urban Planners See The Potential Impact Of Th... by jgibson on Sunday September 02, 2018 @03:18PM (#17898168)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model

This is already in common use as far as I'm aware. Its used in the Netherlands to predict electrical grid load based on the number of EVs driving about.

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