Ebook: Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems: Tools for Transportation Network Modelling

Since hunting gathering era human brains have evolved to be more sensitive to var-
iations in space and/or time of the surrounding environment rather than regularity
and uniformity; (mostly unconscious) representations of location over space and
evolution over time allowed human beings to survive in challenging conditions. This
is still the case: a pedestrian wishing to cross a urban street tries to anticipate evo-
lution over time of the locations of the surrounding vehicles.
Developing a (mathematical) model of real systems, as common in modern
applied sciences, is a more conscious way to follow that ancestral attitude.