The driving profile generator is a tool to generate an arbitrary number of car driving profilessuch that the resulting profiles are in the same form as those reported in the GermanMobility Panel (MOP) (BMVBS 2008), a large field study that reports car mobility forabout 12.000 individuals in Germany. The profile generator described in this report isable to generate simulated driving patterns for four different groups of persons: employees,part time employees, retired people, and unemployed people. Each generated profilecomprises all car movements of an individual within one week. For each of these tripsseveral different pieces of information are provided, in particular the start of the trip, theduration of the trip, and the kilometers driven throughout the trip. To make the generateddriving profiles follow patterns similar to those in the empirically observed drivingprofiles of the MOP, the panel’s database has been statistically analyzed and the resultsare used as the basis for the profile generator. The following section describes in moredetail how the MOP has been analyzed and how the major patterns have been identified.Thereafter, section 1.2 describes in more detail how the profile generator makes use ofthese statistical data to generate new driving profiles. Finally, section 1.3 evaluates thegoodness of the generated driving profiles.
