This paper presents a methodology to construct travel related activity schedules for individuals in a synthetic population. The resulting list of activity schedules are designed as an input into a micro-simulator for urban transport dynamics analysis. The methodology involves two main steps. The first step generates a synthetic population based on census data sourced from the Australian Bureau ...

Activity-based transportation models have set the standard for modelling travel demand for the last decade. It seems common practice nowadays to collect the data to estimate these activity-based transportation models by means of activitytravel diaries. This paper presents a general functional framework of an advanced activity-travel diary data collection application to be deployed on a GPS-enab...

Several research teams working on integrated land use, transportation and environmental modelling have begun an international collaboration to develop an Open Platform for Urban Simulation (OPUS). The initiative is creating an Open Source platform that simulates land use, activitybased travel demand, and dynamic traffic assignment, and that can be extended by users and adapted to alternative mo...

This article explores the development of previous models to determine hubs in a competitive environment. In this paper, by comparing parameters of the ticket price, travel time and the service quality of hub airports, airline hubs are divided into six categories. The degree of importance of travel time and travel cost are determined by a multivariate Lagrange interpolation method, which can pla...

Considerable amount of research efforts has been dedicated to conceive forecasting models for predicting urban development and travel demand. Mainly originated from the application of economic theory, urban development models were initially conceived to explain the configuration and evolution of urban structures (Chapin, 1957). According to Ross (1988), these models are used to predict how futu...

This paper addresses the importance of travel forecasting, the general direction of emerging forecasting methods, the importance of integrating land use and transportation forecasting, and this committee’s relationship to other committees at the Transportation Research Board (TRB). In particular, the movement from trip-based to activity-pattern or activity-scheduling methods of modeling is emph...