EVALUATING DYNAMIC-RESPONSIVE TRANSPORT AT EQUILIBRIUM WITHIN AN AGENT-BASED SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT

This study proposes a new approach to assess Demand-Responsive Transport. We developed the DRT Equilibrium (DRT EQ) within an agent-based simulation environment, an iterative procedure in which DRT routes are defined at each procedure iteration and treated as conventional bus lines, with the routes refined at each iteration based on equilibrium performance. To assess the performance of this methodology, we tested it against MATSim's dynamic DRT module using a case study from Luxembourg. We show that under a stress test scenario, the DRT EQ performs better and more consistently than the DRT Module from both the customers' and provider's perspective.