Modelling the Evolution of Human Trail Systems.¶
Helbing, D., Keltsch, J., & Molnár, P. (1997). Modelling the Evolution of Human Trail Systems. Nature, 388, 47-50.
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Primes¶
- Desire Path
- In architecture and urban planning, the origin substrate, the desire path is the dirt track cutting the corner across a lawn, the worn diagonal across a campus quad, the cow paths of older cities.
This sourceModels how repeated low-friction passage by pedestrians (and, in the active-walker formulation, animals) cumulatively wears a substrate into a network of trails that diverge from designed routes — the physical mechanism and the human/non-human generality of desire-path / game-trail formation.
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The abstract backs pedestrian-worn trails in green spaces and their urban-planning relevance, but not a definition of desire paths or the campus-quad and cow-path examples.
“Here we develop a model of pedestrian motion to explore the evolution of trails in urban green spaces such as parks.”
- In architecture and urban planning, the origin substrate, the desire path is the dirt track cutting the corner across a lawn, the worn diagonal across a campus quad, the cow paths of older cities.
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