Incorporating land use into methods of synthetic population generation and of transfer of behavioral data

Elizabeth C. McBride, Adam W. Davis, Jae Hyun Lee, Konstadinos G. Goulias

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDemand Forecasting, Volume 1
PublisherNational Research Council
Pages11-20
Number of pages10
Volume2668
ISBN (Electronic)9780309441643
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

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