Investigating the Minimum Size of Study Area for an Activity-Based Travel Demand Forecasting Model
Joint Authors
Wets, Geert
Bao, Qiong
Creemers, Lieve
Kochan, Bruno
Bellemans, Tom
Janssens, Davy
Shen, Yongjun
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-03-22
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Nowadays, considerable attention has been paid to the activity-based approach for transportation planning and forecasting by both researchers and practitioners.
However, one of the practical limitations of applying most of the currently available activity-based models is their computation time, especially when large amount of population and detailed geographical unit level are taken into account.
In this research, we investigated the possibility of restraining the size of the study area in order to reduce the computation time when applying an activity-based model, as it is often the case that only a small territory rather than the whole region is the focus of a specific study.
By introducing an accuracy level of the model, we proposed in this research an iteration approach to determine the minimum size of the study area required for a target territory.
In the application, we investigated the required minimum size of the study area surrounding each of the 327 municipalities in Flanders, Belgium, with regard to two different transport modes, that is, car as driver and public transport.
Afterwards, a validation analysis and a case study were conducted.
All the experiments were carried out by using the FEATHERS, an activity-based microsimulation modeling framework currently implemented for the Flanders region of Belgium.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bao, Qiong& Shen, Yongjun& Creemers, Lieve& Kochan, Bruno& Bellemans, Tom& Janssens, Davy…[et al.]. 2015. Investigating the Minimum Size of Study Area for an Activity-Based Travel Demand Forecasting Model. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1073073
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bao, Qiong…[et al.]. Investigating the Minimum Size of Study Area for an Activity-Based Travel Demand Forecasting Model. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1073073
American Medical Association (AMA)
Bao, Qiong& Shen, Yongjun& Creemers, Lieve& Kochan, Bruno& Bellemans, Tom& Janssens, Davy…[et al.]. Investigating the Minimum Size of Study Area for an Activity-Based Travel Demand Forecasting Model. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1073073
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1073073