An original synthetic population tool applied to Belgian case: VirtualBelgium

Authors

Eric Cornelis, University of NamurFollow
Laurie Hollaert, University of NamurFollow
Johan Barthelemy, University of WollongongFollow
Philippe L. Toint, University of Namur

RIS ID

89308

Publication Details

Cornelis, E., Hollaert, L., Barthelemy, J. & Toint, P. L. (2013). An original synthetic population tool applied to Belgian case: VirtualBelgium. Proceedings of NTTS - Conferences on New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics: The meeting place for Research in Official Statistics (pp. 695-701). Brussels: Eurostat.

Abstract

A new tool for building synthetic populations, alleviating the drawbacks of classical methods, is presented. It creates both individuals and households at a quite disaggregated spatial level and simulates the temporal evolution of the built synthetic population.VirtualBelgium, this new tool, is applied on the Belgian case and is coupled with multi-agents models for simulating mobility behaviours.