Integrated agent-based microsimulation framework for examining impacts of mobility-oriented policies

Autor: Davy Janssens, Silvana Di Sabatino, Fatma Outay, Erika Brattich, Muhammad Adnan, Shiraz Ahmed
Přispěvatelé: Adnan, Muhammad/0000-0002-1386-2932, Adnan, Muhammad, Outay, Fatma, Ahmed, Shiraz, Brattich, Erika, di Sabatino, Silvana, Janssens, Davy
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
FOS: Computer and information sciences
Demand management
Physics - Physics and Society
Relation (database)
Computer science
Microsimulation
Mobile computing
FOS: Physical sciences
Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
02 engineering and technology
Management Science and Operations Research
Library and Information Sciences
Statistics - Computation
Increase in bus frequency
Restricting car access
020204 information systems
62P20
11. Sustainability
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Air dispersion
Air quality index
Computation (stat.CO)
business.industry
Integrated microsimulation platform
020206 networking & telecommunications
Environmental economics
Computer Science Applications
Activity-travel behaviour
13. Climate action
Hardware and Architecture
Public transport
Calibration
Sustainability
Restricting car acce
business
Zdroj: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Article
ISSN: 1617-4909
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-020-01363-w#citeas
Popis: Travel demand management measures/policies are important to sustain positive changes among individuals' travel behaviour. An integrated agent-based microsimulation platform provides a rich framework for examining such interventions to assess their impacts using indicators about demand as well as supply side. This paper presents an approach, where individual schedules, derived from a lighter version of an activity-based model, are fed into a MATSIM simulation framework. Simulations are performed for two European cities i.e. Hasselt (Belgium), Bologna (Italy). After calibrating the modelling framework against aggregate traffic counts for the base case, the impacts of a few traffic management policies (restricting car access, increase in bus frequency) are examined. The results indicate that restricting car access is more effective in terms of reducing traffic from the network and also shifting car drivers/passengers to other modes of travel. The enhancement of bus infrastructure in relation to increase in frequency caused shifting of bicyclist towards public transport, which is an undesirable result of the policy if the objective is to improve sustainability and environment. In future research, the framework will be enhanced to integrate emission and air dispersion models to ascertain effects on air quality as a result of such interventions.
Comment: Post-print
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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