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Probabilistic speed-density relationship for pedestrian traffic

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Marija Nikolic, Matthieu Marie Cochon de Lapparent

We propose a probabilistic modeling approach to represent the speed-density relationship of pedestrian traffic. The approach is data-driven, and it is motivated by the presence of high scatter in the raw data that we have analyzed. We show the validity of ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

A macroscopic loading model for time-varying pedestrian flows in public walking areas

Michel Bierlaire, Thomas Mühlematter, Bilal Farooq, Flurin Silvan Hänseler

A macroscopic loading model applicable to time-dependent and congested pedestrian flows in public walking areas is proposed. Building on the continuum theory of pedestrian flows and the cell transmission model for car traffic, an isotropic framework is dev ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

A Bayesian Approach to Detect Pedestrian Destination-Sequences from WiFi Signatures

Michel Bierlaire, Antonin Danalet, Bilal Farooq

In this paper, we propose a methodology to use the communication network infrastructure, in particular WiFi traces, to detect the sequence of activity episodes visited by pedestrians. Due to the poor quality of WiFi localization, a probabilistic method is ...

2014

Association Generation in Synthetic Population for Transportation Applications: Graph-Theoretic Solution

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Dimitrios Efthymiou, Paul Richard Anderson

The generation of synthetic populations through simulation methods is an important research topic and has a key application in agent-based modeling of transport and land use. The next step in this research area is the generation of complete synthetic house ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

Multidimensional Indicator Analysis for Transport Policy Evaluation

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Dimitrios Efthymiou

The need for forecasting the direct and indirect effects of land use and transport policies on society, the environment, and the local economy has led to the development of integrated land use and transport (LUTI) models. The land use and transport policy ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

Microsimulation Framework for Urban Price-Taker Markets

Bilal Farooq

In the context of integrated transportation and other urban engineering infrastructure systems, there are many examples of markets, where consumers exhibit price-taking behaviour. While this behaviour is ubiquitous, the underlying mechanism can be captured ...

2013

Simulation based population synthesis

Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Daniel Hurtubia González, Gunnar Flötteröd, Bilal Farooq

Microsimulation of urban systems evolution requires synthetic population as a key input. Currently, the focus is on treating synthesis as a fitting problem and thus various techniques have been developed, including Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) and ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

A Multidimensional Decisions Modelling Framework for Built Space Supply

Bilal Farooq

The spatial and temporal distribution of built space supply plays an important role in shaping urban form and thus the general travel pattern in an urban area. Within an integrated framework, we are interested in modeling the decisions of a builder in term ...

2013

Towards an activity-based model for pedestrian facilities

Michel Bierlaire, Antonin Danalet, Bilal Farooq

This paper develops a framework for understanding pedestrian mobility pattern from WiFi traces and other data sources. It can be used to forecast demand for pedestrian facilities such as railway stations, music festivals, campus, airports, supermarkets or ...

2013

Towards Integrated Land Use and Transportation: A Dynamic Disequilibrium based Microsimulation Framework for Built Space Markets

Bilal Farooq

Investigating the factors and processes that influence the spatiotemporal distribution of built space and population in an urban area, plays an extremely important role in our greater understanding of the urban travel behaviour. Existing location of activi ...

2012

Historical Validation of an Integrated Transport Land Use Model System

Bilal Farooq

The ILUTE (Integrated Land Use, Transportation, Environment) model system is an agent-based microsimulation model for the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area (GTHA) in which disaggregate, process-based models of spatial socio-economic processes are used to evolv ...

National Academy of Sciences2011