Marchal, Fabrice, Dr.

Laboratoire d’Economie des Transports
Dr. Fabrice Marchal
Institut des Sciences de l’Homme

14, ave Berthelot
69363 Lyon Cedex 07
FRANCE

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Projects

Organisation of the simulation group at IVT

Main focus

• Dynamic traffic simulation
• Travel demand modeling
• Land-use and transport interactions
• Distributed large-scale multi-agents systems
• GPS data collection and analysis

Ph.D. Thesis

Computing contribution to dynamic transportation models (2001), Economics Department, University of Cergy-Pontoise (France)

Employment experience

Current positions

• Research Associate, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)
• Associate Scientist, Laboratory of Transportation Economics (LET), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Lyon

2002 - 2005

Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Laboratory (Co Lab), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)

1998 - 2002

Research Engineer and Ph.D. student, THEMA Laboratory, Economics Department, University of Cergy-Pontoise (France)

1996 - 1998

Research Assistant, Institute of Tranportation Planning (LITEP), Civil Engineering Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

1994 - 1996

Research Assistant, Business Studies Department, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Geneva.

Higher education

2001

Ph.D. Thesis in Tranportation Economics, Economics Department, University of Cergy-Pontoise (France)

1994

Engineer degree in Physics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Brussels.

Publications

• Marchal,F., Hackney, J. and K.W. Axhausen (2005) "Efficient map-matching of large GPS data sets - Tests on a speed monitoring experiment in Zurich". Presented at TRB annual meeting, Washington D.C., Jan. 2005, to appear in Transportation Research Record.
• Hackney, J., Marchal, F. and K.W. Axhausen (2005) Monitoring a road systems level of service: The Canton Zurich floating car study 2003. Presented at TRB annual meeting, Washington D.C., Jan. 2005.
• Marchal, F. and K. Nagel (2005), Modeling location choice of secondary activities with a social network of cooperative agents. Presented at TRB annual meeting, Washington D.C., Jan. 2005, to appear in Transportation Research Record.
• Marchal, F. (2005), A trip generation method for time-dependent large-scale simulations of transport and land-use, to appear in Networks and Spatial Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Nagel, K. and F. Marchal (2003), Computational methods for multi-agent simulations of travel behavior, proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), Lucerne.
• de Palma, A. and F. Marchal (2004), "Tarification modulaire des réseaux de transport: une approche par simulation", to appear in Tarification, enjeux et outils, Economica, Paris.
• de Palma, A. and F. Marchal (2002), "Implementation of a Dynamic Traffic Simulator to the Paris area, Proceedings of the International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies (ICTTS), Cuilin, China. American Society of Civil Engineers, 1216-1223.
• de Palma, A. and F. Marchal (2002), "Evaluation of Road Pricing with Dynamic Network Models." National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. (81st Meeting, Washington, D.C.). Preprint CD-ROM [TRIS Nr. 00922620].
• de Palma, A. and F. Marchal (2002), ``Real cases Applications of the fully Dynamic METROPOLIS Tool-box: an Advocacy for Global Large-scale Mesoscopic Transportation Systems'', to appear in Networks and Spatial Economics 2(4). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 347-369.
• de Palma, A. and F. Marchal (2001), ``Dynamic Traffic Analysis with Static Data: some Guidelines from an Application to Paris'', Transportation Research Record, 1752, pp. 76-83.
• de Palma, A., C. Fontan, F. Marchal, O. Mekkaoui and O. Sanchez (2000), ``Modélisation dynamique et gestion des déplacements en Ile-de-France''. Modélisation du trafic, Actes du groupe de travail 1998. Les collections de l'INRETS - Actes n°78.
• de Palma, A. and F. Marchal (1999). "Analysis of travel cost components using Large-scale dynamic traffic models". Transportation Research Record 1676, pp. 177-183.
• de Palma, A. and F. Marchal (1998), "METROPOLIS: From W. Vickrey to large-scale dynamic simulation models". Proceedings of the European Conference on Transportation, Transportation Planning Methods, Vol I, P423, PTRC, Loughborough, pp. 211-224.
• de Palma, A. and F. Marchal (1998), "METROPOLIS - A Dynamic Simulation Model Designed for ATIS Applications". Proceedings of the International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies '98, Beijing, pp. 770-781.
• de Palma, A. and F. Marchal (1998), "Evaluation of Activity Schedule Policies with the Use of Innovative Dynamic Traffic Models". Proceedings of the International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies '98, Beijing, pp. 791-801.
• de Palma A., F. Marchal and Y. Nesterov (1997), "METROPOLIS: A Modular System for Dynamic Traffic Simulation", Transportation Research Record 1607, pp. 178-184.
• de Palma A. et F. Marchal (1996), "METROPOLIS, un outil de simulation de trafic urbain", Revue Transports 378, July-August.