Transportation Systems Modeling

 

TRANSIMS Training Course
January 27-29, 2009
Moreno Valley, CA

 

Dr. Hubert Ley This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Announcement

 The Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center at Argonne National Laboratory has held several training courses on TRANSIMS. The courses originated from the need to train several groups of students and collaborators that work on a major evacuation study for Chicago under a project for the Illinois Department of Transportation and other regional agencies.

The course is targeting primarily analysts new to the TRANSIMS methodology, and covers both the theoretical underpinnings as well as the practical application of the code. Participants will develop a full understanding of the general TRANSIMS principles, implementation details, data requirements, capabilities, and limitations of the software.
TRANSIMS (short for Transportation Analysis and Simulation System) is an integrated set of tools developed to conduct regional multimodal transportation system analyses. With the goal of establishing TRANSIMS as an ongoing public resource available to the transportation community, TRANSIMS is made available by the Federal Highway Administration under a NASA Open Source Agreement and is therefore readily available to the community.

The TRANSIMS software is compatible with regular Windows and Linux desktop or server systems, but can also make use of high performance computing systems such as the TRACC cluster, a 512 core Linux system with 180TB of disk space and extremely fast network connections across the United States. This cluster is generally available to researchers in the US transportation community and is currently being used for TRANSIMS traffic simulation, emergency evacuation modeling, computational fluid dynamics for bridge analysis, and structural mechanics codes to determine crashworthiness and structural integrity of highway components and vehicles.

Recordings of the January 2009 Training Course in Moreno Valley
The individual sessions held at the January 2009 Training Course have been recorded using Acrobat Connect (the software used to hold the Intenet-based training sessions). The only software necessary to view these sessions is the Flash Player, which is typically already installed on nearly all standard Windows PCs.

Table of Contents	Adobe Connect Recording Links
TRANSIMS Background at TRACC	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p98683226/
Introduction to TRANSIMS	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p42634684/
The TRANSIMS Road and Transit Network	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p10917643/
The TRANSIMS Router	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p14649414/
The TRANSIMS Microsimulator	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p54641006/
Four-Step-Model Trip Conversion	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p55863458/
The TRANSIMS Framework	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p85623958/
TRANSIMS Control Files	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p78363232/
TRANSIMS Feedback and Convergence	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p29887384/
TRANSIMS Partitioning and Parallelization	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p66988691/
TRANSIMS Resources	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p73439875/
TRANSIMS Subarea Modeling	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p91749303/
TRANSIMS GIS Tools	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p68739012/
TRANSIMS Hands-On Demo of the Chicago Model	URL for Viewing: http://anl.na3.acrobat.com/p29145611/