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Title: | Activity-Based Travel Demand Modeling Framework FEATHERS: Sensitivity Analysis with Decision Trees | Authors: | BAO, Qiong KOCHAN, Bruno SHEN, Yongjun BELLEMANS, Tom JANSSENS, Davy WETS, Geert |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Publisher: | Transportation Research Board | Source: | TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD,(2564), p. 89-98 | Series/Report: | Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board | Series/Report no.: | 2564 | Abstract: | The technique of decision trees is commonly applied in activity-based travel demand modeling. It owns the strength of representing the full complexity of interactions between different variables. However, this complexity on the other hand often hinders an interpretation in terms of the relative impacts of these variables on the activity travel choice. In this study, a sensitivity analysis is performed on decision trees in FEATHERS, an activity-based micro-simulation modeling framework, with the purpose of quantitatively measuring the relative impact of input variables (condition variables) involved in the given decision trees on the choice variable. Both of the local and global sensitivity analysis approaches are investigated: i) a one-at-a-time approach which predicts the choice frequency distribution by varying selected input condition variables one after another, and keeping all other variables as observed; and ii) the improved Sobol’ method which evaluates the effect of an input variable while all other variables are varied as well. By applying these two approaches to two representative decision trees concerning work related activity (i.e., commute trip) choice and transport mode choice for work-related activities in the FEATHERS framework, consistent results about the key input variables for these two decision trees are derived, and some extra insights are gained from each of these two approaches. | Keywords: | activity choices; decision trees; microsimulation; sensitivity analysis; travel demand; variables | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/21120 | Link to publication/dataset: | http://pubsindex.trb.org/view/2016/C/1392574 | ISSN: | 0361-1981 | e-ISSN: | 2169-4052 | DOI: | 10.3141/2564-10 | ISI #: | 000392257600011 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2018 |
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