PHASED IMPLEMENTATION OF A MULTIMODAL ACTIVITY-BASED TRAVEL DEMAND MODELING SYSTEM IN FLORIDA. VOLUME II: FAMOS USERS GUIDE

This report is a users guide for the Florida Activity Mobility Simulator (FAMOS) software developed as part of the referenced contract. The software is a user-friendly program that can be used to simulate individual activity-travel patterns for a region. This model system is one of the first implementations of the new wave of activity-based microsimulation model systems being developed around the world to improve and enhance the capabilities of travel demand forecasting models. The users guide provides details on the database formats and structure, software operations and capabilities, model specifications and parameters, and validation results. The users guide comes with a CD that has the setup file for the fully functional software. FAMOS consists primarily of two components, a population synthesizer for generating a synthetic population in a region, and a prism-constrained activity-travel simulator for simulating individual activity-travel records and patterns. The software provides the ability to aggregate the activity-travel records to produce origin-destination trip tables by trip purpose, mode, and time of day that can be used in conjunction with any traditional or emerging traffic assignment algorithm to obtain link volumes. The development and implementation of FAMOS demonstrates the feasibility of applying activity-based microsimulation model systems for urban area travel demand forecasting in a multimodal context.

• Record URL:
  http://www.public.asu.edu/~rpendyal/FAMOS%20Users%20Guide.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of South Florida, Tampa

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4202 East Fowler Avenue
  Tampa, FL  United States  33620

  Florida Department of Transportation

  Haydon Burns Building, 605 Suwanee Street
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32301

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Pendyala, R M
• Publication Date: 2004-5-19

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity choices; Computer program documentation; Econometric models; Forecasting; Microsimulation; Software; Statistical analysis; Travel behavior; Travel demand; Travel patterns; Travel surveys
• Uncontrolled Terms: Activity based modeling; Time space constraints
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00974972
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Report
• Contract Numbers: BA496
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 29 2004 12:00AM