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How much should public transport services be expanded, and who should pay?
(2024)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungThe twin challenge of increasing capacity to accommodate growing travel demand while simultaneously decarbonizing the transport sector places enormous pressure on public transport (PT) systems globally. Arguably the most fundamental policy choice and trade-off in designing and operating PT systems in the coming years will be service levels versus cost implications. On the presumption that public (citizen and consumer) opinion is crucial ...Working Paper -
Investigating mode choice preferences in a tradable mobility credit scheme
(2023)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungTradable Credit Schemes (TCS) are gathering increasing attention in the transportation sector as an alternative to traditional pricing measures. TCS could foster the shift to more sustainable modes and limit the production of negative externalities while promoting social justice and equity. Current research has a strong focus on modeling market equilibrium prices, charging designs, social acceptance, and equity aspects. However, most ...Working Paper -
Multi-modal travel simulation and travel behavior analysis
(2023)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungThis study aims to investigate the multi-modal travel behavior and obtain quantitative results for various indicators by building an eqasim/MATSim model, using Shanghai as the study area. Travel demand is mainly generated using mobile phone signaling data. For each mode, a travel cost model is formulated. Additionally, an MNL (Multinomial Logit) model is embedded into eqasim through the DMC (Discrete Mode Choice) module. The results ...Working Paper -
Modeling sustainable mobility futures using an automated process of road space reallocation in urban street networks
(2023)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungTransport policy research must explore different more or less radical mobility futures that would be able to rapidly reduce the carbon footprint of transport. In this paper, we present a method for modeling one such future by focusing on the allocation of road space between different modes of transport. In a case study for Zurich, Switzerland, we apply the method to reshape the street network allocating the maximum possible proportion of ...Working Paper -
MATSim in the Open Digital Twin Platform
(2023)CSFM Working Paper SeriesMATSim simulations play a crucial role for research, industry, and governance. However, simulating mobility systems within MATSim requires large-scale efforts of data and software preparation, data transformation, computing hardware and data visualization. Digital twin offers a novel paradigm on how to manage the data and infrastructure efficiently and make the simulation results available in a reproducible manner with a low barrier to ...Working Paper -
Investigating the preferences for the use of urban ridepooling
(2023)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungThis study investigates the preferences for the use of the urban ridepooling service MOIA in Hamburg, Germany. A survey with over 4,000 (non-)users was conducted and a discrete choice model was estimated to understand users’ preferences to use the service. The study provides insights into the sociodemographic characteristics of ridepooling users, their preferences towards the service and first findings on the preferences towards an ...Working Paper -
The Switzerland agent-based scenario
(2022)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungThis documents is a user manual for the current state of the pipeline designed to generate a MATSim agent-based scenario for Switzerland. It is a constant work in progress, and thus subject to changes and improvements.Working Paper -
A simultaneous model of residential location, mobility tool ownership and mode choice using latent variables
(2022)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungThis paper investigates the interplay between three key choice dimensions in transport modeling: (i) Residential location, (ii) mobility tool ownership and (iii) mode choice. We use a unique panel dataset of recently moved Swiss respondents to better assess the impact of changes in the respective dimensions. An expected trend is that the better the residential location is accessible, the more likely the respondent owns a public transport ...Working Paper -
Size matters
(2022)arXivIn this paper we review the academic transportation literature published between 2014 and 2018 to evaluate where the field stands regarding the use and misuse of statistical significance in empirical analysis, with a focus on discrete choice models. Our results show that 39% of studies explained model results exclusively based on the sign of the coefficient, 67% of studies did not distinguish statistical significance from economic, policy ...Working Paper -
A Zurich pedestrian route choice model based on BFSLE choice set generation
(2022)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungWith growing interest for sustainable transport modes, city governments are transforming urban spaces to better cater to pedestrians. To make worthwhile infrastructure adaptations, the behavioral preferences behind pedestrian route choice decisions have to be understood. Sets of alternatives are created for 922 GPS tracked walking trips within the city of Zurich using the breadth first search with link elimination algorithm (BFSLE). ...Working Paper