CONTENTS
Certificate of original authorship i
Certificate of Dissertation Advisor’s consent iii
Acknowledgments vii
Abstract ix
List of figures xi
List of tables xvii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Air pollution problem in INDIA 1
1.2 Agent Based Modelling (ABM) 2
1.3 About GAMA 3
1.4 AIM 5
1.5 Objective/Goal 5
1.6 Methodology 5
2 Literature review 7
3 Study Area and Data 9
3.1 Study Area 9
3.1.1 Umiya hall cross road 11
3.1.2 Stadium cross road 11
3.1.3 Pakwan cross road 11
3.2 Data collection 11
3.2.1 Primary Data 12
3.2.2 Secondary data 13
4 ABM simulation Model in GAMA 15
4.1 Introduction 15
4.2 Methodology for model generation 15
4.3 Data generation 16
4.4 Working with Roads and Nodes 17
4.4.1 Reading Data 17
4.4.2 Creating road and node species 18
4.4.3 Species Reflexes 20
4.5 Agent class 22
4.5.1 Creating agent class species 22
4.5.2 Species reflexes 24
4.5.3 Algorithm 26
4.6 User interface and display configuration 31
4.6.1 User Interface 31
4.6.2 Output display 33
4.7 Generation of attribute data for each species 35
4.7.1 Attribute for agent class species 35
4.7.2 Attributes for nodes species 36
4.7.3 Road species data 37
4.8 Air pollution calculation 38
5 Result and conclusion 39
5.1 Results 39
5.1.1 Umiya Hall Cross road 39
5.1.2 Stadium cross road 53
5.1.3 Pakwan cross road 67
5.2 Conclusion 82
5.3 Critical analysis 83
5.4 Future scope 83
References lxxxv
Appendix 1: GAML code xciii
Appendix 2: Abbreviations ci
Appendix 3: Tables ciii