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Title:

SimMobility: A Multi-scale Integrated Agent-Based Simulation Platform

Accession Number:

01590236

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Developments in integrated agent-based platform has shown progress, however, most of efforts are based on integrating activity-based demand models with dynamic traffic assignment model. Integration beyond this level is limited and mostly based on loosely coupled mechanism (i.e. manual exchange of data). SimMoblity is a simulation platform that integrates various mobility-sensitive behavioral models within a multi-scale simulation platform that considers land-use, transportation and communication interactions. It particularly focuses on impacts on transportation networks, intelligent transportation services and vehicular emissions, thereby enabling the simulation of a portfolio of technology, policy and investment options under alternative future scenarios. In short, SimMobility encompasses the modeling of millions of agents, from pedestrians to drivers, from phones, traffic lights to GPS probes, from cars to buses and trains, from second-by-second to year-by-year simulations. Simmobility is designed to support the activity-based modeling paradigm. All choices are ultimately tied to the agent‟s goal of performing activities on a time scale that can vary from seconds to years. Agents can be grouped in broad ways, from households to firms, and can have varying roles including operators, bus drivers or real-estate agents. Thus, the range of possible decisions is also broad, from travel (e.g. Mode or route choice, driving behaviour) to land-use (e.g. household or firm location choice). This paper describes the SimMobility framework, its key features such as event-based implementation, parallel and distributed architecture and flow of data across three integrated levels. Additionally, application of the whole platform in Singapore context with some details on application of autonomous mobility on demand study is also presented.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Standing Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting. Alternate title: SimMobility: Multiscale Integrated Agent-Based Simulation Platform.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-2691

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Adnan, Muhammad
Pereira, Francisco C
Azevedo, Carlos Limsa
Basak, Kakali
Lovric, Milan
Raveau, Sebastián
Zhu, Yi
Ferreira, Joseph
Zegras, Christopher
Ben-Akiva, Moshe

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Agent based models

Geographic Terms:

Singapore

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-2691

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 5:11PM