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CTS Research Seminars — Spring 2009
For more information, contact Shawn Haag, 612-625-5608 or haag0025@umn.edu
April 29
Recent Advances in Integrated Urban Modeling at the University of Toronto
Speaker: Eric J. Miller, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. CDT, Room 1130, Mechanical Engineering Building
This presentation will provide a high-level overview of the ILUTE (Integrated Land Use, Transportation, Environment) model system under development at the University of Toronto. ILUTE is a multiagent, comprehensive microsimulation model of urban socioeconomic processes. These processes include:
- Population demographics
- Residential location choice
- Firm demographics and location choice (at the moment not fully implemented)
- Labor market participation
- Auto ownership
- Daily activity/travel
- Housing and commercial floorspace supply
- Mobile source emissions (pollution and greenhouse gases)
The current model study area is the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area (GTHA). The model operates on a 100-percent sample of synthesized agents for the GTHA. A 1986 base-year population of agents has been synthesized from census data for model system testing.
After a brief introduction to the overall ILUTE system, the presentation will focus on recent work undertaken within the ILUTE project, consisting of new models of: agent synthesis, demographic updating, residential housing market clearing, activity/travel, and road vehicle emissions and dispersion.
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