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The future of urban models in the Big Data and AI era: a bibliometric analysis (2000-2019)

Marion Maisonobe

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This article questions the effects on urban research dynamics of the Big Data and AI turn in urban management. Increasing access to large datasets collected in real time could make certain mathematical models developed in research fields related to the management of urban systems obsolete. These ongoing evolutions are the subject of numerous works whose main angle of reflection is the future of cities rather than the transformations at work in the academic field. Our article proposes grasp the scientific dynamics in areas of research related to two urban systems: transportation and water. The article demonstrates the importance of grasping these dynamics if we want to be able to apprehend what the urban management of tomorrow's cities will be like. To analyse these research areas’ dynamics, we use two complementary materials: bibliometric data and interviews. The interviews conducted in 2018 with academics and higher education officials in Paris and Edinburgh suggest avenues for hybridization between traditional modelling approaches and research in machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data. The bibliometric analysis highlight the trends at work: it shows that traffic flow as well as transportation studies are focussing more and more on AI and Big Data and that traffic flow studies are arousing a growing interest among computer scientists while, so far, this interest is less pronounced in the water research area, and more especially regarding water quality. The differences observed between research on transportation and that on water confirm the multifaceted nature of the developments at work and encourage us to reject overly hasty and simplistic generalisations about the transformations underway.
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hal-02386954 , version 1 (29-11-2019)
hal-02386954 , version 2 (20-05-2020)
hal-02386954 , version 3 (26-01-2021)
hal-02386954 , version 4 (03-03-2021)
hal-02386954 , version 5 (23-03-2021)

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Marion Maisonobe. The future of urban models in the Big Data and AI era: a bibliometric analysis (2000-2019). 2021. ⟨hal-02386954v3⟩
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