Here is a list of publications relevant to SelfSim, as well as its extensions and applications (for different low-carbon technologies and/or different real-world cases) . Please note that SelfSim (including its key modules) keeps being improved and updated, and may also be adapted to specific scenarios. Thus, you may find different versions of SelfSim and its key modules in the published work.
SelfSim Framework and Modules
Chengxiang Zhuge, Chunfu Shao, Jian Gao, Chunjiao Dong, Hui Zhang. Agent-based joint model of residential location choice and real estate price for land use and transport model. Computers, environment and urban systems, 2016, 57: 93-105.
Chengxiang Zhuge, Chunfu Shao, Shuling Wang, Ying Hu. An agent-and GIS-based virtual city creator. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2018, 11(1): 1231-1256.
Chengxiang Zhuge, Chunfu Shao. Agent-based modelling of locating public transport facilities for conventional and electric vehicles. Networks and Spatial Economics, 2018, 18: 875-908.
Chengxiang Zhuge, Chunfu Shao, Binru Wei. An agent-based spatial urban social network generator: A case study of Beijing, China. Journal of computational science, 2018, 29: 46-58.
Chengxiang Zhuge, Chunfu Shao. Agent-based modelling of office market for a land use and transport model. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 2019, 7(1): 1232–1257.
Chengxiang Zhuge, Chunyan Wang. Integrated modelling of autonomous electric vehicle diffusion: From review to conceptual design. Transportation research part D: transport and environment, 2021, 91: 102679.
Sustainable Technologies
Xingjun Huang, Yilan Bu, Junbei Liu, Meng Meng, Jie Zhang, Chengxiang Zhuge. A spatial agent-based approach to simulating the ride-hailing system and its environmental impacts. Transport Policy, 2025, 103848
Xingjun Huang, Zhuoran Li, Songzi Zhou, Junbei Liu, Chengxiang Zhuge. Market potential of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Beijing: a spatial agent-based model approach. Transportation, 2025, 1–26.
Junbei Liu, Chengxiang Zhuge, Justin Hayse Chiwing G. Tang, Meng Meng, Jie Zhang. Consumers’ attitudes toward benefits and drawbacks of vehicle-to-grid technology: An agent-based model. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2025, 1–16.
Chengxiang Zhuge, Binru Wei, Chunjiao Dong, Chunfu Shao, Yuli Shan. Exploring the future electric vehicle market and its impacts with an agent-based spatial integrated framework: A case study of Beijing, China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019, 221: 710-737.
Junbei Liu, Chengxiang Zhuge, Justin Hayse Chiwing G. Tang, Meng Meng, Jie Zhang. A spatial agent-based joint model of electric vehicle and vehicle-to-grid adoption: A case of Beijing. Applied Energy, 2022, 310: 118581.
Chengxiang Zhuge, Chunjiao Dong, Binru Wei, Chunfu Shao. Exploring the role of technology innovations in the diffusion of electric vehicle with an agent-based spatial integrated model. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2021, 174: 105806.
Justin Hayse Chiwing G. Tang, Junbei Liu, Anthony Chen, Bobin Wang, Chengxiang Zhuge, Xiong Yang. Exploring the potential adoption of Mobility-as-a-Service in Beijing: A spatial agent-based model. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2025, 194: 104430.
Chengxiang Zhuge, Justin Hayse Chiwing G. Tang. The Potential Diffusion and Economic Impacts of Private Autonomous Vehicles: A Spatial Agent-Based Model. In Handbook of Geospatial Approaches to Sustainable Cities, CRC Press, pp. 325–347.
Water-Energy Nexus
Chengxiang Zhuge, Min Yu, Chunyan Wang, Yilan Cui, Yi Liu. An agent-based spatiotemporal integrated approach to simulating in-home water and related energy use behaviour: A test case of Beijing, China. Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 708: 135086.