Project Summary
This proposal is to study the impacts of an agent-based modeling which is to simulate shared-mobility transportation system associated with shared, connected, and autonomous vehicles (SCaV). This study constructs a comprehensive mobility agent pool for the consideration of various modes of travel such as drive-alone (private vehicle), public transit, shared-cars, shared rides, bikeshare, SCaV, and combinations of these modes. Five main components of this study are: (1) an agent-based simulation model for achieving a tractable, flexible, compatible, and scalable programmable platform with initial network contexts from Orange County; (2) development of a pool of multiple-class users with travel patterns resulting from constraint-driven optimization-based activity modeling (3) an integrated transportation mobility portfolio platform, which provides travelers with the optimal shared-mobility travel options among travel mode alternatives under newly-envisaged subscriptions services from TNCs, and (4) an examination of impacts of the proposed methods to not only system participants behavior but also entire transportation system performance.
