Berlin – activitiy based, dynamic, multimodal
Airport Schönefeld (BBI) will soon be opened and replaces the airport Tegel. A city of business, a city of politics and a city for tourists - and they all will enter and leave Berlin from south-east rather then from north-west. Passenger flows will differ for sure. But what transport mode will they use? What will be the impacts for the different public transport providers of Berlin and Brandenburg? Which bottlenecks will disappear and where will new ones occur? What will be the travel demand for off-peak hours and who will actually react more of these changes?
Senozon built—in cooperation with PTV Berlin—a fully intergrated activity based demand and dynamic traffic assignment model for the BVG (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe; the berlin public transport company) on very detailed spacial resolution for the year 2008 and—as a prediction model—for the year 2015. It is the basis to find and analyse future bottlenecks, delay of services and identification of potential future customers of the BVG. Furthermore, the model allows the BVG to include and test case studies to optimize their service for the future travel demand.
Berlin – The Busy City: The movie shows where and when activities are performed during the day. Every flashing spot indicates that a new activity has just been started at that location.
The colors indicate the type of activity: red: tourist activities – yellow: shopping activities – green: leisure activities – violet: education activities – light blue: work activities – orange: activities from or to airports
A Lazy Day in Berlin: Follow one synthetic person during the day. After a nice stay at the riverside, let's go for shopping in the south of Berlin for 2 hours in the morning driving through the traffic of Berlin. After lunch at home it's time for leisure for the rest of the day.
The background shows rivers and green areas (source: http://openstreetmap.org) while the green moving dots visualize the motorized transport of Berlin. In orange you see the individual demand of one of the 4.4 million modeled MATSim agent representing the population of the greater area of Berlin.
Berlin – The Busy Bus Line 245: The movie shows how and when activities are performed during the day by persons that uses the bus line 245 at least once. Every flashing spot indicates that a new activity has just been startet at that location.
The colors indicate the type of activity: red: tourist activities – yellow: shopping activities – green: leisure activities – violet: education activities – light blue: work activities – orange: activities from or to airports