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Integrated agent-based microsimulation framework for examining impacts of mobility-oriented policies
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Muhammad Adnan, Universiteit Hasselt
  • Fatma Outay, Zayed University
  • Shiraz Ahmed, Universiteit Hasselt
  • Erika Brattich, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
  • Silvana di Sabatino, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
  • Davy Janssens, Universiteit Hasselt
ORCID Identifiers

0000-0002-1386-2932

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract

© 2020, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature. 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 Multi-Agent Transport Simulation (MATSIM) framework. Simulations are performed for two European cities i.e. Hasselt (Belgium) and 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.

Publisher
Springer
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Activity-travel behaviour,
  • Calibration,
  • Increase in bus frequency,
  • Integrated microsimulation platform,
  • Restricting car access
Scopus ID
85078265399
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository
http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08535
Citation Information
Muhammad Adnan, Fatma Outay, Shiraz Ahmed, Erika Brattich, et al.. "Integrated agent-based microsimulation framework for examining impacts of mobility-oriented policies" Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2020) - 13 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1617-4909" target="_blank">1617-4909</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/fatma-outay/2/