Scenario: Road Pricing
Topic Cordon for city of Zurich Additional cost of 5 euros for all red links The toll is imposed from 06:00 – 24:00
Implementation Adaption of MATSim configuration
Expected Effects Suppressed trips More public transport Less congestion Accessibility in Zurich city
AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: SustainCity: Micro-simulation for the prospective of sustainable cities in Europe
code, making it an attractive tool for
research. Consequently, the main objective of the SustainCity project is to develop an urban modelling platform for European cities, based on UrbanSim. This platform is tested in three case studies: Brussels, Paris and Zurich. The new modelling platform, UrbanSim-E,
will provide the means to evaluate the impacts of policy measures in European cities. With the sustainable development objective in mind, UrbanSim-E will provide a quantitative assessment of the trade-off between economic, environmental or social objectives in the development of cities. “We want politicians and other decision-makers to be able to use this as a tool to test the effects of building a new motorway, or decreasing taxes,
to give two examples,”
says Bodenmann. “They will be able to input these new variables and instantly see the spatial effects of such decisions.” Due to its flexibility and open source
features, UrbanSim is a convenient starting point
for an integrated land use and
transportation model. UrbanSim simulates the behaviour of all agents within an urban system through a series of sub-models, and a number of changes to these as well as some new ones have been suggested for UrbanSim-E.
Demographics Population growth, and the consequent formation of
new households through
matching of individuals, is the main reason for demand in the residential real estate market. UrbanSim did not include an internal demographic model, and so part of the SustainCity project is the development
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of a new demographic model to work alongside it. This consists of a new hybrid model,
accounting explicitly for
formation of households, birth of children and separations as the result of interaction between individuals.
Household behaviour and residential choice The location preferences of households define the social structure of a city and, at the same time, determine the demand for dwellings at different locations in the city. At
present, UrbanSim randomly
selects which houses will relocate, but in UrbanSim-E
the decision to move is
modelled explicitly. The way in which people select their new residence is also modelled in a more complex way, taking into account the negotiation process that may occur between household members rather than regarding the household as a single unit.
Stakeholders In real estate markets, there are two major stakeholders that can affect government decision in terms of housing policy and land use regulation: Social Housing Corporations
and Private Home Owner
Associations. Stakeholder lobbying can be modelled in terms of their effect on property
values, labour mobility transport flows.
Firmographics The second biggest demand for land in urban areas comes from firms. UrbanSim-E takes a step up from the current model which accounts for jobs related to a type of economic activity in that
it will model 41 and the
Project Objective: Goal of the SustainCity project is to address the modelling and computational issues of integrating modern mobility simulations with the latest micro-simulation land use models. The project intends to advance the state-of-the-art in the field of the microsimulation of prospective integrated models of Land-Use and Transport (LUTI). On the modelling side, the main challenges are to integrate a demographic evolution module, to add an environmental module, to improve the overall consistency and, last but not least, to deal with the multi-scale aspects of the problem: several time horizons and spatial resolutions are involved.
Project Duration and Timing: 4 years, January 2010 to June 2013
Project Funding: 3.8 Mio EUR European Commission; Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
Project Partners: Zurich, Switzerland (ETHZ) Prof. Kay W. Axhausen (Co-ordinator), Dr. Balz R. Bodenmann
(scientific co-ordinator)
Elizabeth Morand
Belgium (UCL) Prof. Isabelle Thomas, Peeters
Belgium (KUL) Prof. Stef Proost
Gayda
Antoniou
Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) Prof. Michel Bierlaire
Francesco Billari, Rodolfo Baggio
(UCB) Prof. Paul Waddell
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