Transport Planning and Systems

Agent-based microscopic mobility models open a wide new range of opportunities for transport modeling and planning. Senozon’s mobility models do not only produce traffic flows for the different modes of transport, they simulate and analyze all actors in traffic with a large variety of demographic and socio-demographic characteristics – in a very high geographic resolution, dynamic in time and fully activity based. This means, every single actor in traffic can be traced and therefore analyzed during the whole day. This is true for each individual of the region as well as for each transport vehicle – from a private car to single train compositions of a public transport line. The models are kept up to date by Senozon, namely with the most actual base data (e.g. population and infrastructure), but also by integration of the newest technological achievements in the fields of mobility research.

Example Applications

Microscopic Modeling of Very Large Regions

Senozon models, operates and consults worldwide, e.g. in Switzerland or the greater areas of Berlin and Los Angeles. The great flexibility of microscopic agent-based models allows one to seamlessly transfer existing macroscopic transport models (e.g. VISUM, EMME) into an activity based approach.

Accessibility - Disaggregated

Accessibilities between different modes of transport are important values in transport planning. Senozon’s mobility models produce accessibilities at very high resolution (coordinate) rather than zone based.

Market and Customer Potentials

Where are potential customers of public transport located? Which public transport stops and lines would they use? What are the travel costs or time differences to competing modes of transport? Senozon’s agent-based mobility models allows one to answer questions about mobility markets with a high of detail, microscopic, dynamic in time and for various groups of customers.

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References and Examples

Combining Urban Modelling with Detailed Passenger Flow Modelling

We can tell you how many people use a train station – but have you ever wondered how those passengers move around in the station, and if the station actually has enough space for all those travelers?

Berlin - market and traffic demand potentials for public transport

What if all inhabitants of the greater area of Berlin, that occasionally use public transport would by season tickets and leave their cars at home? We estimated the additional potential demand for the public transport system of Berlin.

Berlin – activitiy based, dynamic, multimodal

Berlin should eventually get a new airport (BER) which replaces the airports Tegel and Schönefeld. 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. What does that mean for the public transport system? We recreated Berlin and its mobility for the BVG to find answers to these questions.

Calculation of transit travel times and distances

How long does one need to travel with public transport services from several locations to a place in the city of Zurich? We calculated the answer to this and other questions in a project for IVT, ETH Zurich.