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Title:

Advances in Agent Population Synthesis and Application in an Integrated Land Use and Transportation Model

Accession Number:

01128803

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

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.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-1686

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Pritchard, David R
Miller, Eric J

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (13) ; Tables (1)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-1686

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 5:56PM