Journal of Transport and Land Use

Traffic noise feedback in agent-based Integrated Land-Use/Transport Models

Nico Kuehnel

Technical University of Munich

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0527-8653

Dominik Ziemke

Technische Universität Berlin

Rolf Moeckel

Technical University of Munich

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6874-0393

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2021.1852

Keywords: integrated land-use/transport models, ilut, microsimulation, agent-based, noise, environment

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Abstract

Road traffic is a common source of negative environmental externalities such as noise and air pollution. While existing transport models are capable of accurately representing environmental stressors of road traffic, this is less true for integrated land-use/transport models. So-called land-use-transport-environment models aim to integrate environmental impacts. However, the environmental implications are often analyzed as an output of the model only, even though research suggests that the environment itself can have an impact on land use. The few existing models that actually introduce a feedback between land-use and environment fall back on aggregated zonal values. This paper presents a proof of concept for an integrated, microscopic and agent-based approach for a feedback loop between transport-related noise emissions and land-use. The results show that the microscopic link between the submodels is operational and fine-grained analysis by different types of agents is possible. It is shown that high-income households react differently to noise exposure when compared low-income households. The presented approach opens new possibilities for analyzing and understanding noise abatement policies as well as issues of environmental equity. The methodology can be transferred to include air pollutant emissions in the future.

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Author Biographies

Nico Kuehnel, Technical University of Munich

Research associate at Professorship for Modeling Spatial Mobility

Dominik Ziemke, Technische Universität Berlin

Research associate at the department of Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics

Rolf Moeckel, Technical University of Munich

Assistant Professor at Professorship for Modeling Spatial Mobility

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