EVA data model

The data model for EVA also comprises demand object types (Demand objects) relevant for other models, such as the additional demand object type structural property. Compared to the standard-4-stage model, these demand objects have some additional attributes in the EVA model. These attributes have an effect on EVA trip generation (EVA trip generation).

Activities and activity pairs

In the EVA model activities and activity pairs have the following additional attributes.

Type of demand object

Attribute and range of values

Meaning

Activity

IsHomeActivity

bool (0,1)

The value of 1 specifies the activity representing the road user’s home. Just one activity can be specified as such. The attribute influences the default setting of the OrigDestType attribute for the type of demand object of Activity pair.

Activity pairs

OD type

{1, 2, 3}

1 = Origin activity is home activity

2 = Destination activity is home activity

3 = neither origin nor destination activity are home activity

Activity pair

Joint coupling of demand strata

Consideration of coupling across demand strata under constraints

Calculate separately: The constraints apply per demand stratum

Origin together for all demand strata: The constraints apply to all demand strata on the origin side of this activity pair

Destination together for all demand strata: The constraints apply to all demand strata on the destination side of this activity pair

Joint double binding: The constraints apply to all demand strata on both the origin and destination side of this activity pair

Table 42: Demand object types in the EVA demand model

Structural properties

Structural properties are used to measure the zone attractiveness as origin or destination of a journey. They, for example, include sales floor areas or the number of school places. Structural properties are very simple demand objects, their only attributes are a code and a name. Instead, you could also use user-defined zone attributes. However, defined as structural properties, they better reflect their role in the demand model.

To each structural property SP defined in the demand model the numerical zone attribute ValueStructuralProp(SP) in which the values of the structural property per zone can be filed is created automatically.

Demand strata

Demand strata, too, have several additional properties, particularly in connection with their constraints. Moreover, demand strata refer to an activity pair having an origin-destination type. Since that type determines the treatment of the demand strata in the different operations and therefore is referred to frequently, it is called the origin-destination type of the demand stratum itself below.

Attribute

Meaning and range of values

Origin structural property codes

Parameters specifying the structural potential of the demand stratum on the origin side.

Range: set of structural properties

Destination structural property codes

Parameters specifying the structural potential of the demand stratum on the destination side.

Range: set of structural properties

Balancing

(Balancing on the user interface)

Value 1 specifies the demand stratum in which the differences between total origin and destination traffic are absorbed during balancing. Just one demand stratum can be marked as such, it has to be of origin-destination type 3.

Range: bool (0, 1)

Quantity as potential

1 = productions or attractions also define the structural potential (attractiveness) of the zone for the demand stratum.

0 = productions or attractions have to be kept as constraint during Trip distribution, but do not reflect any attractiveness. Instead all zones show the same structural potential.

Range: bool (0, 1)

Marginal totals type origin

(Constraint Orig. on the user interface)

Type of constraint on origin side. For origin-destination type 1 it is always hard, in all other cases variable.

Range: {hard, weak, elastic, open}

Marginal totals type destination

(Constraint Dest on the user interface)

Type of constraint on destination side. For origin-destination type 1 it is always hard, in all other cases variable.

Range: {hard, weak, elastic, open}

Marginal totals min factor origin constant

(CF OMin Constant on the user interface)

1 = ConstraintMinFactorOrig is constant, i.e. zone-independent. The value of the ConstraintMinFactorOrig attribute of the demand stratum is applicable. Select this option if the factor for the lower limit of the productions is equal for all zones.

0 = ConstraintMinFactorOrig is zone-dependent. The value of the ConstraintMinFactorOrig(DStr) zone attribute is applicable. This option makes sense if you want to use the individual lower limits.

This attribute can only be edited if the factor has not been determined by the selected type of constraint.

Range: bool (0, 1)

Constraints max factor origin constant

(CF OMax constant on the user interface)

As above for the upper limit on origin side

Range: bool (0, 1)

Constraints min factor destination constant

(CF DMin constant on the user interface)

As above for the lower limit on destination side

Range: bool (0, 1)

Marginal totals max factor destination constant

(CF DMax constant on the user interface)

As above for the upper limit on destination side

Range: bool (0, 1)

Constraints min factor origin

(CF OMin on the user interface)

Factor for the lower limit of the productions if ConstraintMinFactorOrigConstant = 1

This attribute can only be edited if the factor has not been determined by the selected type of constraint.

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Constraints max factor origin

(CF OMax on the user interface)

As above for the upper limit on origin side

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Constraints min factor destination

(CF DMin on the user interface)

As above for the lower limit on destination side

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Constraints max factor destination

(CF DMax on the user interface)

As above for the upper limit on destination side

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Table 43: Properties of the demand strata in the EVA demand model

Zones

Due to the definition of the objects of the demand model several zone attributes are created.

Attribute

Subattribute

Meaning and range of values

Balance factor production

Demand stratum

Weighting of demand stratum productions

This value can be included in and recalculated during trip distribution.

Balance factor attraction

Demand stratum

Weighting of demand stratum attractions

This value can be included in and recalculated during trip distribution.

Constraints min factor origin

Demand stratum

Factor for the lower limit of the productions if ConstraintMinFactorOrigConstant = 0

This attribute can only be edited if the factor has not been determined by the selected type of constraint.

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Constraints max factor origin

Demand stratum

As above for the upper limit on origin side

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Constraints min factor destination

Demand stratum

As above for the lower limit on destination side

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Constraints max factor destination

Demand stratum

As above for the upper limit on destination side

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Number of persons

Person group

Number of inhabitants of the person group in zone

Range: integer ≥ 0

Structural property value

Structural property

Value taken by the structural property in zone

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Mobility rate

Demand stratum

Person group

Specific traffic demand of a person group for the demand stratum. Only effective if MobilityRateConstant(DStr) = 0 in the procedure parameters of EVA trip generation.

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Production rate

Demand stratum

Structural property

Production rate of structural property for the demand stratum on origin side. Only effective if ProductionRateConstant(DStr) = 0 in the procedure parameters of EVA trip generation.

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Attraction rate

Demand stratum

Structural property

As above for destination side

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Study area factor home

Demand stratum

Person group

Remaining share of home trips of the person group for the demand stratum. Only effective if StudyAreaFactorHomeConstant(DStr) = 0 in the procedure parameters of EVA trip generation.

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Study area factor origin

Demand stratum

Structural property

Effective share of the structural property for the demand stratum (on origin side). Only effective if StudyAreaFactor ProductionConstant(DStr) = 0 in the procedure parameters of EVA trip generation.

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Study area factor destination

Demand stratum

Structural property

As above for destination side

Range: floating point number ≥ 0

Table 44: Zone attributes for the EVA demand model