Planning for the Future: A Land-use and Transport Interaction Model for Switzerland

FaLC (Facility Location Choice Simulation Tool) is an integrated transport and land use simulation tool developed in a joint project of the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) at ETH Zurich and regioConcept. The idea of FaLC is to develop a tool to answer different questions for scientific as well as planning purposes. The modelling focus are effects of changing infrastructure supply, political decisions, and economic conditions on the spatial behaviour (location and relocation choices, transport flows) of persons (places of residence, work, leisure and shopping), firms (domicile, branches) and goods (freights, wholesale, retail, cash flow). This paper presents the first results of an implemented Case Study for Switzerland. Especially, it shows the effects and side-effects of different assumed spatial interventions. Additionally, it discusses some problems of the chosen micro-simulation approach (e.g. data availability, white noise, choice of subsets).