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The Development of a Unified Modeling Framework for the Household Activity-Travel Scheduling Process

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Traffic and Mobility

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The goal of this paper is to propose a new approach to activity-travel schedule modeling that provides a unifying framework for past research in different areas. This approach is based on empirical evidence gathered using a Computerized Household Activity SchEduling (CHASE) survey. The survey provided a means to examine the underlying scheduling behavior of household over a one week period as it occurs in reality. Results show that a clear distinction can be made between routine scheduling decisions that are pre-planned before the week commences, and the more short-term, impulsive, opportunistic decisions made as the schedule is executed during the week. This distinction allows one to conceptualize the modeling task as a multi-stage process, wherein routine planning is approached with existing optimization models (assuming that routine activities are the result of a long-term thought and experimentation process) followed by a more sub-optimal rule-based simulation model to replicate the decisions process during the week within the constructs of the optimal routine plan. Such a model is proposed in this paper as a long term development, and would rely on the type of data provided by new data collection techniques such as CHASE. Operationalization of the model as an event-oriented simulation is proposed. Various components of the model are explored in detail, and discussed within context of existing models.

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  1. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, G1K 7P4

    S. T. Doherty

  2. Institut für Straßenbau und Verkehrsplanung, Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Technikerstr. 13, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    K. W. Axhausen

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Verkehrswesen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780, Bochum, Germany

    Werner Brilon

  2. Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Umweltverträgliche Infrastrukturplanung, Stadtbauwesen, Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Pauluskirchstraße 7, D-42285, Wuppertal, Germany

    Felix Huber

  3. Physik von Transport und Verkehr, Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg, Lotharstraße 1, D-47048, Duisburg, Germany

    Michael Schreckenberg

  4. Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen, Steinbachstraße 10, D-52074, Aachen, Germany

    Henning Wallentowitz

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Doherty, S.T., Axhausen, K.W. (1999). The Development of a Unified Modeling Framework for the Household Activity-Travel Scheduling Process. In: Brilon, W., Huber, F., Schreckenberg, M., Wallentowitz, H. (eds) Traffic and Mobility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60236-8_3

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