Abstract
Impacts on land use distribution of a metropolitan area by a policy measure such as development of a road network or a railway system are increasingly complicated and more detailed analysis is required. A micro simulation system is a very effective tool to analyze these impacts in detail. The current paper develops a microsimulation model for representing demographic distribution on a hypothetical metropolitan area by using parameters estimated by the real data of the Person Trip Survey and its accompanied survey in 2006 which investigate individual location choice behavior. This model shows that the microsimulation model is able to forecast various possible demographic distributions as well as the most likelihood one. Therefore, this tool is useful in managing various risks which will occur there by foreknowing what will happen from the results of this model.
