Integration of service related trips into an agent-based travel demand model

• Applicant: Professor Dr.-Ing. Peter Vortisch
• Subject Area: Traffic and Transport Systems, Intelligent and Automated Traffic ; Urbanism, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 536280707

The aim of the project is to research and model travel demand in service-related passenger trips. Service-related passenger travel is the part of economic transport that does not move goods but people. It is distinguished from private passenger travel by the fact that the trips are made in the context of the exercise of a profession. Examples are trips by craft workers to the places where they do their jobs, trips by care services or trips for parcel delivery. Such trips are often underrepresented in existing travel demand models; also, systematic, causal modeling is not yet as advanced as in the modeling of private passenger transport or freight transport. In the project, surveys and interviews are to be carried out in order to be able to reproduce how people place orders with companies, from which journeys then arise. The process determined in this way is then to be incorporated in a simplified form into an existing travel demand model, which currently only contains private passenger travel, in order to be able to represent the entire demand for passenger travel. This will make it possible to predict how, for example, economic fluctuations will affect the volume of passenger traffic.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants