FaLC Transport Simulation Module: How accurate can simplified travel time calculations be?

This paper presents, the assumptions, simplifications and accuracy of different approaches to estimate travel times in transport simulation. Additionally, the paper focuses on the assumptions in the simplified transport simulation module in FaLC as well as its methodology to achieve efficient results. To validate different approaches, the paper compares two different results for travel time estimations (calculation based on speed regression or maximum allowed speed) with the results of the Swiss National Passenger Transport Model (NPVM) calculated in VISEM.