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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Microsimulation"”.
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Sibship in Low Fertility Settings: A Microsimulation Approach
… fertility patterns. This study uses kinship microsimulation to model the lifespan composition of individuals’ sib sets, focusing on three critical life course stages: during childhood, at orphanhood, and near death. The microsimulations illustrate how sib set composition is linked to its …
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Modelling multiple disease risk factors for microsimulation studies
Longitudinal microsimulation is a common technique used in studies that aim to evaluate and compare health policies to reduce the risk of chronic diseases. This requires simulating realistic trajectories of multiple risk factors for a synthetic population. A variety of methods have been used to …
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A Dynamic Spatial Microsimulation Model for Irish Agricultural Emissions
… describes the development of a dynamic spatial microsimulation model for Irish agriculture and its use in providing a spatially disaggregated profile of resultant emissions. Following the establishment of a baseline spatial agricultural emissions inventory, a dynamic microsimulation model is …
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Microsimulation analysis of informal labour markets in developing countries
… of the thesis is to illustrate the capacity of microsimulation techniques to analyse a broad range of topics related to this problem. To highlight the potential of the methodology we pose a motivating question: what are the barriers that informal workers face to becoming formal? Job contact …
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Calibrating activity-based travel demand model system via microsimulation
… to solve it. The solution procedure relies on microsimulation to calculate expected aggregate statistics of interest to the calibration problem. Additionally, we derive approximate analytical expressions for the gradient of the objective function -that are evaluated through microsimulation on …
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An Integrated Agent-Based Microsimulation Model for Hurricane Evacuation in New Orleans
… on a timely basis is crucial for the officials. Microsimulation modeling, which focuses on the characteristics of individual motorists and travel behavior, has been used widely in traffic simulation as it can lead to the most accurate result. However, because detailed driver response modeling and …
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A methodology for the design and evaluation of traffic control systems using microsimulation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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An Analysis of Traffic Behavior at Freeway Diverge Sections using Traffic Microsimulation Software
… microscopic level. This thesis utilizes three microsimulation models, INTEGRATION, VISSIM, and CORSIM, to investigate the lane changing behavior as vehicles approach a freeway diverge area. The count of lane changes, lane use distribution, and visual inspection of the simulated lane changing …
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Applications of microsimulation traffic data in infrastructure construction projects using 3D/4D CAD models
… traffic visualization during construction with microsimulation output is discussed in this thesis. The benefits of adding traffic information to 3D/4D CAD models and some potential areas of application are explored. Two case studies on TxDOT transportation construction projects are considered to …
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Design and Evaluation of Urban Congestion Pricing Policies with Microsimulation of Passenger and Freight
… congestion pricing policies using integrated microsimulation of urban passenger and freight. First, we extend a state-of-the-art microsimulation system of urban passenger and freight for analyzing pricing strategy impacts. We integrate freight into the passenger components and incorporate cost …
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Achieving Public Long-Term Care Insurance Through Social Security Wealth: Microsimulation for the US Case
… annuity in the event of LTC needs. Through a microsimulation of costs and benefits, I locate the area on the income/wealth distribution where taking up this LTC insurance would make economic sense for seniors. A secondary goal of the microsimulation will be to assess potential savings in …
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Assessing the impact of government grants on poverty and inequality: a microsimulation study in South African
Poverty and inequality are the major challenges of the post-apartheid government of South Africa. In order to address these challenges, the government designed a range of policies and strategies including social grant programs. The main objectives of social grants in South Africa focus on relieving …
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Assessing the Impact of Bicycle Infrastructure and Modal Shift on Traffic Operations and Safety Using Microsimulation
… stakeholders. Using the trajectory data from microsimulation, the surrogate safety assessment model (SSAM) from FHWA was used to analyze the safety effect on the bike infrastructure improvement and expansion. Results of this study showed a positive impact of complete streets transformation on …
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Demográfiai előrejelzések és nyugdíjkutatás támogatása mikroszimulációs módszertanok alkalmazásával = Supporting demographic forecasts and pension research through the application of microsimulation methodology
Az elmúlt évtizedekben a fejlett országok demográfiai folyamatai jelentős változásokon mentek keresztül. A társadalom életkor szerinti struktúrájának átalakulása és népesség elidősödése olyan gazdasági és szociológiai kihívások elé állítja a döntéshozókat, mint a nyugdíjrendszer fenntarthatóságának …
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Land use change through market dynamics : a Microsimulation of land development, the bidding process, and location choices of households and firms
… More importantly, this work demonstrates that microsimulation of real estate markets and the spatial allocation of households and firms is a viable pursuit. Such approaches herald a new wave of land use forecasting opportunities, for more effective policymaking and planning.
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Unpacking the links between household income and child academic achievement in Australia through the development of the PICAA microsimulation systems model
… Income and Child Academic Achievement (PICAA) microsimulation model. This model was developed with the goal of being used by policymakers to test the magnitude of expected outcomes of educational and welfare interventions for student outcomes. To do so, this study develops and employs a novel …
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The development of a holistic approach to modeling driver behavior : accounting for driver heterogeneity in car-following models
… in car-following behavior is accounted for in microsimulation models. This dissertation has three primary objectives. Objective 1 identifies which driver attributes are sources of inter-driver heterogeneity. Objective 2 explores the viability of using census-level data to calibrate …
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Surrogate Analysis and Calibration of Safety-Related Driver Behavior Modeling in Microscopic Traffic Simulation and Driving Simulator for Aggressive Driving
… of various driving behavior types in the microsimulation software by providing an easier-to-calibrate alternative for the driver behavior model in the microsimulation. The calibration method would leverage VISSIM, its highly customizable External driver model (EDM) API, JMP Pro's …
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Integrating a Regional Planning Model (TRANSIMS) With an Operational Model (CORSIM)
… of a large metropolitan area. This regional microsimulation approach provides a better assessment of the performance of a large network than the current link performance functions utilized in the current planning procedures. On the other hand, their microsimulation approach on a regional …
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