01629489

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2668-02

This paper describes a new method of population synthesis that includes land use information. The method is based on an initial identification of suitable land use summaries to build a spatial taxonomy at any spatial scale. This same taxonomy is then used to classify household travel survey records (persons and households) and in parallel geographic subdivisions for the state of California. This land use information is the added dimension in the population synthesis methods for travel demand analysis. Synthetic population generation proceeds by expanding (re-creating) the records of the households responding to the survey and the entire array of travel behavior data reproduced for the synthetic population. The basis for selecting the variables to use in the synthetic population is first testing their significance in simplified specification in models of travel behavior that include land use as an explanatory variable and account for the shape of behavioral data (e.g., observations with no travel). The paper shows differences between synthetic populations with and without land use data to demonstrate the behavioral realism added by this approach.

01646167

17-02892

English

0000-0003-4007-7048

pp 11–20

2017

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309441643

Digital/other

Figures (5) ; References (25) ; Tables (3)

Data analysis; Land use; Population; Travel demand

California

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General)

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 11:05AM

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