Coupling transport and land-use: Investigating accessibility indicators for feedback from a travel to a land use model

Abstract

Urban land-use and transportation are influencing each other in a dynamic and complex manner; this needs an integrated view of the interactions between land-use and transport. In this paper, we summarize the steps integrating UrbanSim! with MATSim? directly at a microscopic person centric level. The standard feedback from external travel models to UrbanSim is on an aggregated zone level. In this paper we investigate how an utility-based accessibility measure like the so-called logsum term can be used for this purpose at the example of work place accessibility. This study will address issues such as (i) different resolutions, (ii) different generalized costs of travel such as free speed car-, congested car-, bicycle- and walk travel times and (iii) sensitivity to a modification in the transport network.