Area Dividing Method by Neural Network

Abstract

It is a fundamental process of urban planning to determine the planning area or to divide the area into the zones in which the tendency on urban activities at each place is similar to others. The area dividing process can be formulated as a minimization problem of the sum of the generalized distance. This problem can be numerically solved by using Hopfiled Network which is a basic model of neural network theory.Applying the proposed method to the actual urban lattice data, we can obtain divided zones.