ResearchCurrent ProjectsDetailed Evaluation of Transport Policies using Microsimulation The project deals with the advancement of microsimulation models of traffic behaviour in larger areas. Hereby, different reactions to measures based on demographic (e.g. income-related) indicators as well as calculations of the environmental effects including the associated external costs are incorporated. As a result of the project an instrument will be available which calculates the external costs for each measure on a detailed person- and space-resolved level beyond existing knowledge. This instrument will be developed by the cooperative work on the advancement of the existing microsimulation model between the Technical University Berlin, Chair of Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics and mobil.TUM from the Technical University Munich to analyse distribution effects of external costs.
The following key questions are focused on in this project: Who causes which external costs? Who bears which external costs? How are both groups connected? Who passes which external costs on which group? How do the resulting distribution effects change in response to the different measures? The distribution analysis is conducted from an inter-personal, inter-regional and inter-temporal perspective. In addition to a base scenario, several internalisation scenarios are investigated which are based on the assumption that the external effects are extensively internalised. The objective is to show to what extent a transport system would need to be modified in relation to the existing situation and how this would affect the distribution of transport-related environmental effects.
Keywords: Microsimulation, Evaluation, External Costs, Internalization Funding Institution: DFG Project Partners: TU Berlin Time Frame: 09/2009 – 08/2012 Contact Person: Friederike Hülsmann |
