Applying Geovisualisation to Validate and Communicate Simulation Results of an Activity-based Travel Demand Model

Abstract

Despite the immanently strong spatial relation of transport demand models ‒ both with respect to the input data, as well as the simulation results ‒ graphical, map-orientated visualisation with a focus on time-space-related phenomena is rarely applied for the purpose of validation, analysis, and communication of model data. At the same time, the visualisation of time-space related data is a prominent field of research in geography and geomatics, resulting in a wide range of examples for good representation. We present current work aiming at bridging this gap for the case of an activity-based travel demand model.