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analysis and (potentially) development of a multi-agent simultation for carsharing
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Calculating HH from population #60

Closed 00Bock closed 7 years ago

00Bock commented 7 years ago

is probably nice to have since we can initially use VSP standard.

How can we calculate the households from the population? How can we make future predictions for household sizes?

bsmoehring commented 7 years ago

There is a forecast from bbsr accessible via the inkar tool predicting the amount of households with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5+ persons. This forecast is on 'Raumordnungsregions'-level until 2035. We could try to distribute the population according to these household statistics. However, I can't find information about the distribution of these households by age and gender. Plans from MID are matched by these attributes. The 'right' amount and size of households with 'wrong' attributes of its persons might bring worse results in the end. What's the benefit of using the VSP standard households compared to persons?

00Bock commented 7 years ago

Benefits are a more realistic modelling of carpooling, or @dhosse?

wese-da commented 7 years ago

The benefit of modelling households is that we can group persons and private owned vehicles they have use access to.

For practical reasons, we never modelled mode choice on this level because it would include further development (i.e. carpooling and / or household members competing for driving the car(s)). This leads directly to modelling social networks and joint trips which would take us too far regarding our aims.

Nevertheless, we can collect some ideas how to achieve the computation of households from an agent population but for the time being I would recommend to stick with the person-based approach.

00Bock commented 7 years ago

the approach has been dropped. hh are only nice to have on aggregation and modeling level we are using. from now on only handling persons as agents.