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K.G. Goulias

Abstract

A longitudinal integrated forecasting environment (LIFE) for activity and travel forecasting Konstadinos G. Goulias Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, and Center for Intelligent Transportation Systems, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA Abstract In the past few decades transport system simulation has experienced a radical change of modeling paradigms in which macroscopic approaches to forecasting are increasingly replaced by microscopic (disaggregate) model systems targeting the behavior of the most elementary decision-making units. An example model system called Longitudinal Integrated Forecasting Environment (LIFE) that contains a demographic simulator, a daily time allocation and travel scheduling system, and a Geographic Information System is described in more detail in this paper. In the model system, interdependence among human activities is incorporated in transportation system simula

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