Synthetic populations: review of the different approaches

Johan BARTHELEMY; Eric CORNELIS

Synthetic populations: review of the different approaches

Johan BARTHELEMY, Eric CORNELIS

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Microsimulations may involve a large number of agents. It is then practically impossible or too expensive to obtain a fully and complete disaggregated data set about these agents of interest. Moreover, if such a dataset was available, its use would be potentially problematic in view of stringent privacy laws. To address this problem one may build an artificial population starting from known aggregate data. Most of the known generation methods are explained in this paper. Their advantages and limitations are discussed and references are given for further details.

Original language	English
Publisher	CEPS/INSTEAD
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Working Papers
Publisher	CEPS/INSTEAD
No.	2012-18

Keywords

iterative proportional fitting procedures
micro simulation
optimization
transport simulation

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Synthetic populations: review of the different approaches

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Proceedings of the BIVEC-GIBET Transport research days 2013.

Advancement in conceptualizing cross-border daily mobility: the Benelux context in the European Union

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