Integrating Public Transit into Microscopic Simulations of Travel Behavior for Urban and Regional Systems
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Abstract
| It has been computationally possible for some time now to perform simulations with several millions of "particles". Progress in object-oriented software has made it possible to enhance particles to "agents", with increasingly complex internal states and actions. We apply this approach to the modeling and simulation of urban and regional systems, where we do not only model the movement of vehicles and people, but also the behavioral decisions that lead to travel. Recently our approach was extended towards public transit. The presentation will demonstrate and discuss what is currently working, what would be easy to add, and which aspects are more difficult to add, for example because of software design decisions. The public transit system of Berlin (approx 1 billion passenger trips per year, 8589 stops, 848 routes, 58919 trips) will be used as an example. |
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| Leo Kroon |
