The Senozon Mobility Model

Structure

Infratructure Data

buildings
roads
stops and railway stations
buses, trams, trains incl. all timetables

Population Data

Information on autonomous individuals incl. sociodemographic attributes and activities, they follow
Path optimization regarding time/costs

Simulation of Mobility Behavior

Validation of the Simulation

Senozon Mobility Model Switzerland

Data Used for the Senozon Mobility Model

1Infrastructure Data

The Senozon mobility model is a detailed spatial and temporal representation of a country, representing its infrastructure in high resolution. Senozon uses OSM maps (Open Street Maps) and current infrastructure data provided by the country’s statistical office.

2Population Data

The population at their place of residence is modelled as individuals, based on register and structural surveys and enriched with demographic and sociodemographic attributes. This synthetic population statistically represents the real resident population of a given study area. We call its members ‘agents’. For Switzerland and Austria, the Senozon mobility model contains more than 8 million agents each, for Germany almost 85 million agents.

3Simulating Mobility Behavior

Mobility behavior is simulated based on mobility surveys. The simulation provides a representation of the population’s movement in public space. This enables Senozon to identify target group-specific revenue potentials and accessibilities for locations under review.

4Validating the Simulation

Our model is calibrated and validated using actual traffic and passenger counts, travel distances and time distributions for each means of transport.