Research

Tages is interested in advanced modeling of transport demand, with reference to the implementation of Activity-Based methods for the simulation of the choice process (route assignment, trip distribution etc.). These methods are currently unavailable in four-steps models, that do not take into account a variety of phenomena (i.e. trip chaining, occasional mobility, consequences of change of opening and closing hours on vehicle flows etc.). Tages is also active in a large scale territorial research field dealing with the evolution of land use in time. More specifically, reasearch is concerned with urban sprawl, which is leading to land consumption and waterproofing.

 
Another research branch concerned the implementation of integrated landuse-transport models by means of Cellular Automata and landuse multi-temporal analysis. On the side of urban planning, Tages is involved in research and analysis of:

- urban systems,
- urban functional systems, 
- urban centrality and marginality (for which a specific method has been designed, inspired by Configurational Analysis and Space Sintax),
- multivariate correlation between location of activities and social phenomena such as crime, urban blight, neighborhood security, residential clustering etc. (use of Weighted Geographic Regression, Principal Components Analysis and other geostatistical techniques).