TY - JOUR AU - Scherr, Wolfgang AU - Manser, Patrick AU - Joshi, Chetan AU - Frischknecht, Nathalie AU - Métrailler, Denis PY - 2020/10/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Towards agent-based travel demand simulation across all mobility choices – the role of balancing preferences and constraints JF - European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research JA - EJTIR VL - 20 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.18757/ejtir.2020.20.4.4463 UR - https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/ejtir/article/view/4463 SP - 152-172 AB - <p>This article presents an agent-based travel demand model, where agents react to transport supply across all mobility choices. Long-term choices include mobility tool ownership and work locations. Daily travel patterns are simulated at the individual level by sequentially combining activity frequency, activity durations and destinations as well as a rule-based time-of-day scheduling.&nbsp; A key to success in this novel approach is balancing individual preferences of travelers with system constraints. The model incorporates two types of constraints: 1) capacity constraints of the transport infrastructure. 2) natural time and space constraints during the execution of individual 24-hour day plans. Model results are validated against empirical observations of travel demand in Switzerland. The article concludes with a perspective for further research and development in the field of applied agent-based modeling.</p> ER -