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Simulating Spatial Dynamics and Processes in a Retail Gasoline Market: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach. |
Abstract | ||
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Simulating the dynamics and processes within a spatially influenced retail market, such as the retail gasoline market, is a highly challenging research area. Current approaches are limited through their inability to model the impact of supplier or consumer behavior over both time and space. Agent-based models (ABMs) provide an alternative approach that overcomes these problems. We demonstrate how knowledge of retail pricing is extended by using a hybrid' model approach: an agent model for retailers and a spatial interaction model for consumers. This allows the issue of spatial competition between individual retailers to be examined in a way only accessible to agent-based models, allowing each model retailer autonomous control over optimizing their price. The hybrid model is shown to be successful at recreating spatial pricing dynamics at a national scale, simulating the effects of a rise in crude oil prices as well as accurately predicting which retailers were most susceptible to closure over a 10-year period. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1111/tgis.12027 | TRANSACTIONS IN GIS |
DocType | Volume | Issue |
Journal | 17 | 5 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1361-1682 | 2 | 0.41 |
References | Authors | |
8 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Alison J. Heppenstall | 1 | 74 | 12.03 |
Kirk Harland | 2 | 20 | 3.35 |
Andrew N. Ross | 3 | 2 | 0.41 |
Dan Olner | 4 | 6 | 0.98 |