Nico Kühnel

Research Associate

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Vita

Nico Kühnel got his Master's degree in Transportation Engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin in 2017, where he also worked as a student research assistant at the department of transport systems planning and transport telematics since 2013. He then joined the Spatial Mobility Research Group as a research associate and PhD student. In 2019 he joined the mobil.lab doctoral research group as an associated member.

Research Interests

traffic simulation

integrated landuse and transportation modeling

traffic signal controls

open data

Projects

TraMPA - Transportation Modeling Using Publicly Available Data
FABILUT: SILO <-> MATSim integration
- https://github.com/msmobility/silo
- www.msm.bgu.tum.de/forschung/modellierung/integration/
MATSim Plugin for JOSM
- https://github.com/matsim-org/josm-matsim-plugin
GTFS-MATSim Converter
- https://github.com/matsim-org/GTFS2MATSim
Implementation of driver shifts and breaks for MATSim ride-pooling simulations (funded by and in cooperation with MOIA GmbH)

Courses

Winter

Object-Oriented Programming for Transport Engineers

Summer

Applied Transport Modeling with MATSim

Supervised Master Theses

Estimating the potential Reduction of Transport-related Air Pollutants in Munich | Eunbyeol Ko

Implementation of Public Transportation in the MATSim Simulation Environment | Katharina Mehlstäubler

Modeling Public Transit Commuters' Short-Term En-Route Re-Planning Behavior in Response to Unexpected Service Disruption | Wei-Chieh Huang

The Impacts of Sustainable Concepts in Urban Freight Distribution: A Courier, Express and Parcel Case Study | Ibraheem Adeniran

Awards

Honorable Mention Best Student-Led Paper (first author) awarded by the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research at WSTLUR 2021
Harter Rupert annual best paper award (co-auhor) awarded by the ADC40 standing committee on Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board 2021

2022

Ziemke, Dominik; Kuehnel, Nico; Llorca, Carlos; Moeckel, Rolf; Nagel, Kai: FABILUT: The Flexible Agent-Based Integrated Land Use/Transport Model. Journal of Transport and Land Use 15(1) 2022-08 ( ), 2022, more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2021

Kuehnel, Nico; Huang, Wei-Chieh; Moeckel, Rolf: Environmental Equity Analysis in Agent-Based Transport Simulations: A Study on Causation and Exposure. Procedia Computer Science Volume 184, 650-655 2021-05 184, 2021, 650-655 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Kuehnel, Nico; Ziemke, Dominik; Moeckel, Rolf: Traffic noise feedback in agent-based Integrated Land-Use/Transport Models. Journal of Transport and Land Use 14(1) 2021-03 14 (1), 2021, 325–344 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Mahajan, Vishal; Kuehnel, Nico; Intzevidou, Aikaterini; Cantelmo, Guido; Moeckel, Rolf; Antoniou, Constantinos: Data to the people: a review of public and proprietary data for transport models. Transport Reviews 42(2019):1-26 2021-09, 2021, 1-26 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Zwick, Felix; Kuehnel, Nico; Moeckel, Rolf; Axhausen, Kay W.: Ride-Pooling Efficiency in Large, Medium-Sized and Small Towns -Simulation Assessment in the Munich Metropolitan Region. Procedia Computer Science Volume 184, 662-667 2021-05 184, 2021, 662-667 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Zwick, Felix; Kuehnel, Nico; Moeckel, Rolf; Axhausen, Kay W.: Agent-based simulation of city-wide autonomous ride-pooling and the impact on traffic noise. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment Volume 90 102673, 2021-01 90, 2021, 102673 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2020

Kuehnel, Nico; Ziemke, Dominik; Moeckel, Rolf: A Microscopic, Agent-Based Framework for an Integrated Land-Use/Transport/Environment Model. World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2020, 2020 more… BibTeX
Kuehnel, Nico; Moeckel, Rolf: Impact of simulation-based traffic noise on rent prices. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment Volume 78, 102191 2020-01 78, 2020, 102191 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Kuehnel, Nico; Ziemke, Dominik; Moeckel, Rolf; Nagel, Kai: The end of travel time matrices: Individual travel times in integrated land use/transport models. Journal of Transport Geography 88 2020-09 88, 2020, 102862 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Llorca, Carlos; Silva, Cat; Kühnel, Nico; Moreno, Ana Tsui; Zhang, Qin, Kii, Masanobu; Moeckel, Rolf: Integration of Land Use and Transport to Reach Sustainable Development Goals: Will Radical Scenarios Actually Get Us There? Sustainability, 12(23), 9795 2020-11 (12(23) 9795), 2020 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Llorca, Carlos; Kuehnel, Nico; Moeckel, Rolf: Agent-based integrated land use/transport models: a study on scale factors and transport model simulation intervals. Procedia Computer Science Volume 170, 733-738 2020-04 170, 2020, 733 - 738 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Moeckel, Rolf, Kuehnel, Nico, Llorca, Carlos, Moreno, Ana Tsui; Rayaprolu, Hema: Agent-based Simulation to Improve Policy Sensitivity of Trip-Based Models. Journal of Advanced Transportation, vol. 1902162, 13 2020-02, 2020 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2019

Kuehnel, Nico; Moeckel, Rolf: Environmental aspects in integrated land use/ transportation models: the impact of traffic noise on rent prices. Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting 2019-01, 2019 more… BibTeX
Kuehnel, Nico; Kaddoura, Ihab; Moeckel, Rolf: Noise Shielding in an Agent-Based Transport Model Using Volunteered Geographic Data. Procedia Computer Science Volume 151, 2019, Pages 808-813 2019-05 151, 2019, 808 - 813 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Kuehnel, Nico; Ziemke, Dominik; Moeckel, Rolf; Nagel, Kai: The End of Travel Time Matrices? Or: Why We Should Use Individual Travel Times. Transportation Research Board 99th Annual Meeting 2019-08, 2019 more… BibTeX
Moeckel, Rolf; Kuehnel, Nico; Llorca, Carlos; Moreno, Ana Tsui; Rayaprolu, Hem: Microscopic Travel Demand Modeling: Using the Agility of Agent-Based Modeling Without the Complexity of Activity-Based Models. Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, 2019 more… BibTeX
Thunig, Theresa; Kühnel, Nico; Nagel, Kai: Adaptive traffic signal control for real-world scenarios in agent-based transport simulations. Transportation Research Procedia Volume 37, 481-488 2019-01 37, 2019, 481 - 488 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2018

Kühnel, Nico; Thunig, Theresa; Nagel, Kai: Implementing an adaptive traffic signal control algorithm in an agent-based transport simulation. Procedia Computer Science 130 2018-04 130, 2018, 894--899 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )