Harry Timmermans

Harry Timmermans holds a PhD degree in Geography/Urban and Regional Planning. He studied at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His dissertation concerned a theory of the functional and spatial structure and the dynamics of central place systems. Since 1976 he is affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Nether¬lands. First as an assistant professor of Quantitative and Urban Geography, later as an associate professor of Urban Planning Research. In 1986 he was appointed chaired professor of Urban Planning at the same institute. In 1992 he founded the European Institute of Retailing and Services Studies (EIRASS) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (a sister institute of the Canadian Institute of Retailing and Services Studies). His main research interests concern the study of human judgement and choice processes, mathematical modelling of urban systems and spatial interaction and choice pattens and the development of decision support and expert systems for application in urban planning. He has published several books and many articles in journals in the fields of marketing, urban planning, architecture and urban design, geography, environmental psychology, transportation research, urban and regional economics, urban sociology, leisure sciences and computer science.

Publications

Mobile Technologies for Activity-Travel Data Collection and Analysis
Mobile Technologies for Activity-Travel Data Collection and Analysis
Soora Rasouli, Harry Timmermans. © 2014. 325 pages.
As mobile technologies become ever more pervasive in modern society, users find increasingly innovative methods to take advantage of the newest developments and mobile devices....
The Effects of Different Interaction Protocols in Agent-Based Simulation of Social Activities
The Effects of Different Interaction Protocols in Agent-Based Simulation of Social Activities
Nicole Ronald, Theo Arentze, Harry Timmermans. © 2012. 14 pages.
Decision making in models of activity and travel behaviour is usually individual-based and focuses on outcomes rather than the decision process. Using agent-based modelling...
Advanced Technologies Management for Retailing: Frameworks and Cases
Advanced Technologies Management for Retailing: Frameworks and Cases
Eleonora Pantano, Harry Timmermans. © 2011. 408 pages.
The application of advanced technologies to point of sale systems is a promising and relatively unexplored field of study, in particular when considering the introduction of...
The Effects of Different Interaction Protocols in Agent-Based Simulation of Social Activities
The Effects of Different Interaction Protocols in Agent-Based Simulation of Social Activities
Nicole Ronald, Theo Arentze, Harry Timmermans. © 2011. 15 pages.
Decision making in models of activity and travel behaviour is usually individual-based and focuses on outcomes rather than the decision process. Using agent-based modelling...
A Multi-Agent Modeling Approach to Simulate Dynamic Activity-Travel Patterns
A Multi-Agent Modeling Approach to Simulate Dynamic Activity-Travel Patterns
Qi Han, Theo Arentze, Harry Timmermans, Davy Janssens, Geert Wets. © 2009. 21 pages.
Contributing to the recent interest in the dynamics of activity-travel patterns, this chapter discusses a framework of an agent-based modeling approach focusing on the dynamic...