title: A strategy for generating and testing models of migration and urban growth.
abstract: "In this paper, it is argued that to identify the appropriate conditions under which the traditional gravity-type migration model should be tested, it is necessary to consider the wider demographic-economic framework in which such models play an essential part.  The traditional model and attempts to make it more realistic in an ad hoc way are first sketched, and then the model is embedded in a dynamic framework based on nonlinear differential equations of the logistic kind describing the growth of population and employment.  The role of the gravity model in coupling these equations is then developed."  A theoretical analysis of this framework is then presented using simulation.  "The simplest possible two-region case involving urban and rural regions is developed and after preliminary simulations, a more realistic version involving urban core, suburb and rural hinterland is proposed.  A number of variants of this model are tested using simulation and it is concluded that in devising an appropriate test for this type of migration model, attention should be switched from spatial to temporal variation in migration using highly polarized spatial situations such as city regions."  (summary in FRE, GER)
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Batty
authors.lastname: Karmeshu
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005843:Geography; D016015:Logistic Models; D018803:Models, Economic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D012106:Research; D013997:Time Factors; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Demographic Factors; Economic Model; Employment Status; Geographic Factors; Labor Force; Logistic Model; Mathematical Model; Migration; Migration, Internal; Models, Theoretical; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Research Methodology; Rural-urban Migration; Spatial Distribution; Time Factors; Urban Population; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization