摘要: |
This project will employ agent-based modeling and activity based transit demand modeling. After identifying ideal and target communities and conducting a preliminary sketch analysis to serve as a basis of comparison, the research will proceed with the modeling effort. The virtual decision makers in software, often called agents, include residents, consumers, government, transport providers, vehicle manufactures, energy providers, and others. By developing these models with population, land use, and transit patterns consistent with actual locations and using reasonable and accepted decision rules consistent with the different classes of agents, they are expecting the sought after collective responses revealed in the temporal demand and use function to be quite consistent with those in actual locations. |