On March 3, Soora defended her thesis CUM LAUDE!

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UNCERTAINTY IN MODELING ACTIVITY-TRAVEL DEMAND IN COMPLEX URBAN SYSTEMS

Summary:

Models of travel demand forecasting are commonly used in urban and transportation planning practice to predict the demand for infrastructure and urban facilities and assess the likely effects of new projects and urban-transportation policies on household activity-travel patterns and a series of derived performance indicators, such as total kilometers travelled, trip-tour ratios, emissions, energy consumption and transportation mode shares. Common applications involve the use of single model run outcomes and associated performance indicators, assuming that both the input data and the model are valid.