TRANSIMS: Applications and Development Workshop
April 8–9, 2010
Agenda
TRANSIMS Workshop, Thursday, April 8
8:00
Registration
9:00
David Weber
Introduction and Welcoming Remarks
9:15
Fred Ducca
Key-Note Address: Historical Remarks on TRANSIMS
9:55
David Roden
Development Plans and Design Concepts for TRANSIMS Version 5
10:30
Tea/Coffee
10:45
Hubert Ley
Advanced TRANSIMS User Interfaces - TRANSIMS Studio and the RTE Run Time Environment
11:15
Michael Hope
Parallelization of the TRANSIMS Microsimulator - Design, Development, and Performance
11:45
Reinaldo Moraga
Simulation of Building Evacuation Exit Rates for TRANSIMS
12:15
Lunch
1:30
Adel W. Sadek
Dynamic Origin-Destination Matrix Estimation in TRANSIMS Using Direction-Guided Parallel Heuristic Search Algorithms
2:00
Eric Pihl
Summary of Transims Deployment Activities in Atlanta
2:30
Scott B. Smith
TRANSIMS in the Buffalo / Niagara Falls Area
3:00
Xuesong Zhou
How to Speed up Traffic Simulation and Routing Calculation. Experiences using Simplified Traffic Flow Models, Multi-Core Programming Interface, and Cloud Computing Architecture
3:30
Tea/Coffee
3:45
Adel W. Sadek
TRANSIMS Studies at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
4:15
Mohammad Sharif Ullah
Travel Demand Modeling for a Small Sized MPO Using TRANSIMS
4:45
Michael Hope
Advanced TRANSIMS Visualizations - TransVis Capabilities and Usage
5:15
Xuesong Zhou
NEXTA for TRANSIMS: Existing Visualization Capabilities and Future Enhancements
5:45
Adjourn
| TRANSIMS Workshop, Friday, April 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Matt Hall | Metropolis – A TRANSIMS Visualizer |
| 9:30 | John Kerenyi | Use of TRANSIMS to Analyze Large-Scale Land-Use Changes: Status Update |
| 10:00 | Brian Grady | Building An Integrated Activity-Based and Dynamic Network Assignment Model For Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) |
| 10:30 | Tea/Coffee | |
| 10:45 | Sarah Ellie Ziems | Integrated Multimodal Corridor Analysis: An Application of TRANSIMS in the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Region |
| 11:15 | Kermit Wies | Strategic Plan for Advanced Model Development at CMAP |
| 11:45 | Scott B. Smith | Hosting the TRANSIMS Online Community |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Jun Oh | University of Western Michigan |
| 2:00 | Young Park | Simulation of No-Notice Emergency Evacuations for Chicago |
| 2:30 | Vadim Sokolov | The Schedule-Based Transit Model of the Chicago Metropolitan Area (Using Google Transit Feeds) |
| 3:00 | Tea / Coffee | |
| 3:15 | Developers / All | Round Table Discussion: The Future of TRANSIMS |
| 5:00 | Adjourn | |