Integrated Land-Use Modelling and Transportation System Simulation (2001-2007)
In the project ILUMASS (Integrated Land Use Modelling and Transportation System Simulation) seven
research institutions in Germany developed an integrated, completely microscopic simulation model of land use, transport
and environmental impacts in urban regions. The ILUMASS model is structured into three components:
(1) The land use component is based on the land use part of the IRPUD model developed at the Institute of Spatial Planning of the University of Dortmund, but is completely microscopic as the transport part of ILUMASS. The land use part contains submodels of demographic development, household formation, life cycles of firms, location of residential and non-residential buildings and intraregional labour mobility in a model of the regional labour market and intraregional household mobility in a model of the regional housing market.
(2) The transport part of ILUMASS simulates the daily mobility of persons based on a microscopic model of activity patterns and the resulting trips, as well as goods transport flows, coupled with a microscopic traffic assignment model.
(3) The environment part of ILUMASS models environmental impacts of the modelled traffic flows and land use patterns, such as greenhouse gas emissions, air quality, traffic noise and visual intrusion and selected emissions of land use.
The ILUMASS model was calibrated with data of the urban region of Dortmund in the eastern part of the Rurh area and tested in experimental scenarios of land use and transport development.
ILUMASS was a co-operation of seven research institutions in Germany, the Institute of Spatial Planning of the University of Dortmund (IRPUD), Spiekermann & Wegener, Urban and Regional Research (S&W), Dortmund, the Centre for Applied Computer Science of the University of Cologne (ZAIK), the Institute of Urban Engineering and Urban Transport (ISB) of the RWTH Aachen, the Institute ofr Theoretical Psychology of the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg, the Institute of Urban Studies and Sustainable Infrastructure Planning of the University of Wuppertal (LUIS) and the Institute for Transport Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, with DLR as project co-ordinator.
Overview
Overviews of the progress achieved with the total ILUMASS model are given in
Wagner, P., Wegener, M. (2007): Urban land use, transport and environment models: experiences with an integrated mircroscopic approach. disP 170 (3/2007), 45-56.
Beckmann, K.J., Brüggemann, U., Gräfe, J., Huber, F., Meiners, H., Mieth, P., Moeckel, R., Mühlhans, H., Schaub, H., Schrader, R., Schürmann, C., Schwarze, B., Spiekermann, K., Strauch, D., Spahn, M.,, Wagner, P., Wegener, M. (2007): ILUMASS: Integrated Land-Use Modelling and Transport System Simulation. Endbericht. Berlin: German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Strauch, D., Moeckel, R., Wegener, M., Gräfe, J., Mühlhans, H., Rindsfüser, G., Beckmann, K.-J. (2005): Linking transport and land use planning: the microscopic dynamic simulation model ILUMASS. In: Atkinson, P.M., Foody, G.M., Darby, S.E., Wu, F. (Eds.): Geodynamics. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 295-311.
Land use submodels
The land use submodels of the ILUMASS model are described in
Moeckel, R., Schwarze, B., Wegener, M. (2006): Das Projekt ILUMASS: Mikrosimulation der räumlichen, demografischen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Stadt Region Land 81, 53-61.
Moeckel, R., Schwarze, B., Spiekermann, K., Wegener, M. (2004): Mikrosimulation verkehrsarmer Siedlungsstrukturen. Stadt Region Land 77, 187-196.
Moeckel, R., Schwarze, B., Spiekermann, K., Wegener, M. (2004): GIS und Stadtsimulationsmodelle – Vorbereitung, Modellierung und Nachbereitung von räumlichen Daten in der Stadtsimulation. In: Strobel, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2004. Beiträge zum 16. AGIT-Symposium Salzburg. Heidelberg: Herbert Wichmann Verlag, 462-467.
Moeckel, R., Spiekermann, K., Wegener, M. (2003): Creating a synthetic population. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM). Sendai: Center for Northeast Asian Studies.
Schürmann, C., Moeckel, R., Wegener, M. (2002): Microsimulation of urban land use. In: Proceedings of the 42nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA). Dortmund: ERSA.
The microscopic model of life cycles and intraregional location decisions of firms is described in
Moeckel, R. (2007): Business Location Decisions and Urban Sprawl. A Microsimulation of Business Relocation and Firmography. Dortmunder Beiträge zur Raumplanung 126. Dortmund: Institute of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund.
The little ILUMASS model
For test purposes, S&W and the Institute of Spatial Planning of the University of Dortmund implemented the little ILUMASS model, a reduced version of the ILUMASS model in which the time-consuming microsimulation of traffic flows was replaced by the existing more aggregate ransport model of the IRPUD model. The little ILUMASS model is described in
Wegener, M. (2008): Multi-scale spatial models: linking macro and micro. Presentation at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, 9 January 2008.
Moeckel, R., Schwarze, B., Spiekermann, K., Wegener, M. (2007): Microsimulation for integrated urban modelling. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM 2007), Iguassu Falls, Brazil.
Moeckel, R., Schwarze, B., Spiekermann, K., Wegener, M. (2007): Simulating interactions between land use, transport and environment. Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Transport Research. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley.
