Advances in Agent Population Synthesis and Application in an Integrated Land Use and Transportation Model
Agent-based microsimulation models of socioeconomic processes require an initial synthetic population derived from census data. This paper builds upon the Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) procedure's well-understood statistical properties. While typical applications of IPF are limited in the number of attributes that can be synthesized per agent, a new method introduced here implements IPF with a sparse list-based data structure that allows many more attributes per agent. Additionally, a new approach is used to synthesize the relationships between agents, allowing the formation of household and family agents in addition to individual person agents.
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Authors:
- Pritchard, David R
- Miller, Eric J
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
- Date: 2009
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: DVD
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 18p
- Monograph Title: TRB 88th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Data collection; Land use planning; Microsimulation; Population growth; Public transit; Socioeconomic factors; Statistical analysis; Transit operating agencies; Travel surveys
- Uncontrolled Terms: Agent based models; Iterative proportional fitting
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01128803
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 09-1686
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: May 19 2009 7:48AM