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Abstract
Agent-based modeling has the potential to deal with the ever-growing complexity of transport systems, including future disrupting mobility technologies and services, such as automated driving, Mobility as a Service, and micromobility. Although different software dedicated to the simulation of disaggregate travel demand have emerged, the amount of needed input data, in particular the characteristics of a synthetic population, is large and not commonly available, due to legit privacy concerns. In this paper, a methodology to spatially assign a synthetic population by exploiting only publicly available aggregate data is proposed, providing a systematic approach for an efficient treatment of the data needed for activity-based demand generation. The assignment of workplaces exploits aggregate statistics for economic activities and land use classifications to properly frame origins and destination dynamics. The methodology is validated in a case study for the city of Tallinn, Estonia, and the results show that, even with very limited data, the assignment produces reliable results up to a 500 × 500 m resolution, with an error at district level generally around 5%. Both the tools needed for spatial assignment and the resulting dataset are available as open source, so that they may be exploited by fellow researchers.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 148 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Journal | ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2022 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- Activity-based demand generation
- Spatial assignment
- Synthetic population
- Workplaces assignment
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FinEst Twins: FinEst Twins
Nieminen, M. (Principal investigator)
01/12/2019 → 30/11/2026
Project: EU: Framework programmes funding