Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Maggi,Elena 
Author-Email: elena.maggi@uninsubria.it
Author-Name: Vallino,Elena
Author-Email: elena.vallino@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: An Agent-Based Simulation of Urban Passenger Mobility and Related Policies. The Case Study of an Italian Small City
Abstract: In this paper we present an agent-based model which reproduces transport choices of a sample of 5,000
citizens of the city of Varese (Northern Italy) and the corresponding PM emissions of their daily commutes.
The aim of the model is testing the impact of public policies willing to foster commuting choices with lower
PM emissions. Our model, taking inspiration from other existing works, considers the commuters‘ decisions
on the transport mode to be used. A set of preferences, one for each transport mode - private car, bicycle,
public transport - is assigned to every agent. Throughout the process, agents decide about the means for
commuting on the basis of the relative price of the different means of transport, of the social influence and
of the intensity of the policies applied. The initial distribution of preferences for each transport mode are
inspired to empirical data on Varese commuters. Results suggest that preference-based policies are more
effective if compared to price-based ones. However, the application of a mix of different policies seems to
give the best outputs: the same amount of resources in terms of policy intensity produce much better
results if they are allocated at the same time to two policies, then to one only.
Length: pages 22
Creation-Date: 2017-03
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2017dip/wp_8_2017.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:uto:dipeco:201708