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AKSOE: Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

AKSOE 8: Poster Session

AKSOE 8.3: Poster

Monday, March 7, 2005, 14:00–15:30, Poster TU E

Social and traffic networks in an agent-based freight transport demand model — •Michael Spahn and Peter Wagner — Institute of Transport Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR) in the Helmholtz Association, Rutherfordstrasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany

An agent-based, microscopic freight transport demand model is presented. Agents represent producers and consumers of goods in an economy. Through their economic actions demand for freight transport is generated and satisfied via agents representing transport providers. The resulting traffic flow is treated microscopically and allows for a detailed examination of the consequences of policy measures, technical innovations and economic changes for freight transportation.

For a simplified version of this complex model the resulting social networks between firms and traffic networks are presented and characterized.