Target Driven Activity Planning

This paper proposes a microscopic travel demand simulation that employs a continuous planning approach with an open time horizon. It uses behavioral targets and the concept of projects to model people’s motivation to execute activities. People’s behavior originates from a planning heuristic making on the fly decisions about upcoming activities. The planning heuristic bases its decisions on the available activity execution options in the near planning future, its current execution effectiveness and on a discomfort measure derived from deviations between people’s performance and their behavioral targets. The authors illustrate the model through several examples and suggest directions for future research.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Transportation Demand Forecasting
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Märki, Fabian
  • Charypar, David
  • Axhausen, Kay W
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
• Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 91st Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity choices; Behavior; Microscopic traffic flow; Motivation; Simulation; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01371086
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 12-1611
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 25 2012 9:31AM