This paper describes one of the first known attempts at integrating a dynamic and disaggregated land-use model with a traffic microsimulator and compares its predictions of land use to those from an integration of the same land-use model with a more traditional four-step travel demand model. For our study area of Chittenden County, Vermont, we used a 40-year simulation beginning in 1990. Predicted differences in residential units between models for 2030 broken down by town correlated significantly with predicted differences in accessibility. The two towns with the greatest predicted differences in land use and accessibility are also the towns that currently have the most severe traffic bottlenecks and poorest route redundancy. Our results suggest that this particular integration of a microsimulator with a disaggregated land-use model is technically feasible, but that in the context of an isolated, small metropolitan area, the differences in predicted land use are small.


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    Title :

    Integrating a traffic router and microsimulator into a land use and travel demand model


    Contributors:
    Troy, Austin (author) / Azaria, Dale (author) / Voigt, Brian (author) / Sadek, Adel (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2012-12-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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