Engineers have been using mathematical models to forecast urban travel for nearly 50 years. Despite their impact on urban form and the ways cities work, the history of these engineering tools has been accorded very little interest until now.Konstantinos Chatzis, Visiting Professor in Ivan Allen College’s School of History, Technology, and Society (HTS) through July 2011, is tackling the history of urban travel forecasting (UTF). The first analysis of its type, his work will focus on France and the United States from the 1950s to the present.
Chatzis’ analysis will be carried out from a comparative and transnational perspective by focusing on the circulation and transfer of the modelling practices, and will treat both the “content” of the modelling or mathematical formulas and the entire “production-use” chain of these formulas: actors involved, household travel surveys, computers, and software required
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