A Stepwise Approach of Generating Agent-based Simulation Model for Brussels Using Ubiquitous Big Data

Synthetic travel demands are essential for agent-based traffic models which explicitly define the entire population of the study area's respective personal attributes and travel behaviours on disaggregated levels. Several papers specifically concentrate on synthetic population or travel demand generation, but they are seldom integrated into one pipeline. As such, this paper presents a pipeline for generating ABM using big data such as cell phone OD matrices. A case study of the authors' pipeline is carried out for Brussels, Belgium, using the currently most popular ABM simulator MATSim, which results in the first ABM considering reality-based mobility behaviours for the "capital of the European Union". Notably, all data inputs of the authors' pipeline are ubiquitous, which means the authors' approach is transferable to modelers who would like to generate representative ABMs for their study areas in the future.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.715
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235214652301013X
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  • © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Li, Jingjun
  • Rombaut, Evy
  • Vanhaverbeke, Lieselot
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA Lisbon 2022)
  • Location: Lisbon , Portugal
  • Date: 2022-11-14 to 2022-11-17
• Publication Date: 2023

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 2261-2268
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2352-1465
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cellular telephones; Data analysis; Simulation; Traffic models; Travel demand
• Identifier Terms: MATSim (Computer program)
• Geographic Terms: Brussels (Belgium)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01912916
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 22 2024 5:05PM