create_synthetic_firms: Create synthetic pseudo-firms

In tlumip/swimctr: Oregon SWIM v2.5 Commercial Transport (CT) Model

Description

Create synthetic pseudo-firms

Usage

create_synthetic_firms(zonal_data, sector_equivalencies, alpha2beta,
  save_to = NULL)

Arguments

zonal_data	Data frame containing traffic analysis zone attributes, to include employment by sector
sector_equivalencies	Data frame containing PECAS sectors and their corresponding firm categories (groups of sectors) used in trip generation
alpha2beta	Data frame containing, among other things, the county and Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) region that each zone lies within
save_to	File name for saving the pseudo-firms produced by this function (optional)

Details

This function maps employment by PECAS sector within each alpha zone into separate pseudo-firms, which are unit of analyses for remainder of CT simulation.

Examples

zones <- create_synthetic_firms(zonal_data, sector_equivalencies, alpha2beta,
  "synthetic-firms.csv")

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