Demand for Agent-Based Transportation Models & Social Behavioral Challenges

Agent - based groupware : Challenges for cooperative transaction models

Software development is a highly cooperative activity. The first systems developed to support software development have been, more or less explicitly, based on the assumption that software could be divided into independent components that could be developed separately and then merged together. This assumption is no longer acceptable (if it ever has been). Developers work in a highly cooperative...

Policy Implications of Recent Behavioral Research in Transportation Demand Management

Holistically Evaluating Agent Based Social System Models

The philosophical perspectives on model evaluation can be broadly classified into reductionist/logical positivist and relativist/holistic. In this paper, we outline some of our past efforts in, and challenges faced during, evaluating models of social systems with cognitively detailed agents. Owing to richness in the model, we argue that the holistic approach and consequent continuous improvemen...

Analysis and Operational Challenges of Dynamic Ride Sharing Demand Responsive Transportation Models

There is a wide evidence that sustainable mobility is not only a technological question, automotive technology will be part of the solution as a necessary but not sufficient condition, sufficiency is emerging as a combination of a paradigm shift from car ownership to vehicle usage consequence of socio-economic changes, with the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tha...

GIS-Based Analytical Tools for Transport Planning: Spatial Regression Models for Transportation Demand Forecast

Considering the importance of spatial issues in transport planning, the main objective of this study was to analyze the results obtained from different approaches of spatial regression models. In the case of spatial autocorrelation, spatial dependence patterns should be incorporated in the models, since that dependence may affect the predictive power of these models. The results obtained with t...