Qualitative and Quantitative Comparisons of Agent-Based and Cell-Based Synthesis Estimation Methods of Base-Year Data for Land-Use Microsimulations

摘要: Land-use microsimulation is becoming an indispensable function in a planning support system for sustainable urban development because it provides the detailed information necessary decision making on emerging issues at household or firm level. In land-use microsimulations, there are two approaches estimating base-year micro-data: cell-based population synthesis, which generally uses iterative proportional fitting method, and agent-based methods. This chapter compares these methods qualitatively quantitatively. The qualitative comparison shows that neither one superior every aspect. method preferred when deals with data sufficiently simple, while accurate and/or numerous micro-data attributes demanded. Similarly, quantitative based goodness-of-fit evaluation does not show single all applications. These findings suggest way selecting better conditions of model purpose its application.