Forecasting Daily Activity Plans of a Synthetic Population in an Upcoming District

Rachid Belaroussi () and Younes Delhoum
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Rachid Belaroussi: COSYS-GRETTIA, University Gustave Eiffel, F-77447 Marne-la-Vallée, France
Younes Delhoum: COSYS-GRETTIA, University Gustave Eiffel, F-77447 Marne-la-Vallée, France

Forecasting, 2024, vol. 6, issue 2, 1-26

Abstract: The modeling and simulation of societies requires identifying the spatio-temporal patterns of people’s activities. In urban areas, it is key to effective urban planning; it can be used in real estate projects to predict their future impacts on behavior in surrounding accessible areas. The work presented here aims at developing a method for making it possible to model the potential visits of the various equipment and public spaces of a district under construction by mobilizing data from census at the regional level and the layout of shops and activities as defined by the real estate project. This agent-based model takes into account the flow of external visitors, estimated realistically based on the pre-occupancy movements in the surrounding cities. To perform this evaluation, we implemented a multi-agent-based simulation model (MATSim) at the regional scale and at the scale of the future district. In its design, the district is physically open to the outside and will offer services that will be of interest to other residents or users of the surrounding area. To know the effect of this opening on a potential transit of visitors in the district, as well as the places of interest for the inhabitants, it is necessary to predict the flows of micro-trips within the district once it is built. We propose an attraction model to estimate the daily activities and trips of the future residents based on the attractiveness of the facilities and the urbanistic potential of the blocks. This transportation model is articulated in conjunction with the regional model in order to establish the flow of outgoing and incoming visitors. The impacts of the future district on the mobility of its surrounding area is deduced by implementing a simulation in the projection situation.

Keywords: agent-based model; attractivity law; MATSim; micromobility; real estate development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 B4 C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C8 M0 Q2 Q3 Q4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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