Creating synthetic household populations:problems and approach
| publication year: | 2007 |
| full reference: | Arentze, T.A., Timmermans, H.J.P. and Hofman, F. 2007. "Creating synthetic household populations:problems and approach." In: TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM, Washington DC, United States. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Record. |
| This paper develops a method based on iterative proportional fitting (IPF) for generating synthetic populations for applications of Albatross, which is a rule-based and activity-based model of travel demand. The Dutch Travel Survey (OVG) is used to provide sample data for populations to be synthesized by zone. The paper proposes a method to generate synthetic households based on data on distributions of individuals. The method uses the concept of relation matrices to convert distributions of individuals to distributions of households in a pre-processing step. Furthermore, we propose a method to deal with differences in populations that relate to locational characteristics. | |
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