Constructing a Synthetic Population of Establishments for the Simmobility Microsimulation Platform

This paper presents a method for building a synthetic population of establishments in Singapore for incorporation into SimMobility platform, an integrated microsimulation model that represents households' and firms' short-, medium-, and long-term decisions, ranging from lane changing behav...

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Main Authors: Le, Diem-Trinh, Cernicchiaro, Giulia, Zegras, Pericles C, Ferreira Jr, Joseph
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120111
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0600-3803
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Summary:This paper presents a method for building a synthetic population of establishments in Singapore for incorporation into SimMobility platform, an integrated microsimulation model that represents households' and firms' short-, medium-, and long-term decisions, ranging from lane changing behavior, to daily activity pattern choices, to location choices. The synthetic population includes data on (1) establishments' locations, (2) establishments' industry type, (3) establishments' employment size, and (4) their occupied floor area. Keywords: population synthesis; microsimulation; iterative proportional fitting; SimMobility