How difficult to run in a new city?

[dabreegster]

Hi,

I'm the developer of A/B Street, a traffic simulator that lets the general public become more involved with influencing local transportation projects. The project needs people/activity/trip data as input; it currently uses Seattle's Soundcast model, built on DaySim. Recently groups in other cities are interested in using A/B Street, but we're having trouble finding equivalent demand models.

@jvolker and @tori-d have tracked down some relevant input for Berlin, such as travel surveys, census, and bike counters. How hard would it be for them to start using DaySim? Skimming through your docs on input data, there are lots of things likely missing for Berlin. Is there a minimal set of files to get started?

Combing through Soundcast's documentation, I realize how much region-specific work it's taken. The groups I'm talking to don't have the resources to repeat this effort. But if there is a way to generate some initial results easily from DaySim, then all of A/B Street's existing integration with Soundcast could be leveraged. Individual people and trips can be visualized, and we've got tools for exploring aggregate patterns:

Some of these might also be generally useful for DaySim developers to understand model output. I'd love to find some sort of collaboration where A/B Street helps with dataviz, and DaySim helps onboard cities with less data.

Thanks,
-Dustin

[bstabler]

Hi @dabreegster. See my response to ActivitySim issue #326. ActivitySim is scheduled to replace DaySim so any further efforts would be geared toward ActivitySim. Thanks.

[dabreegster]

I didn't realize the same groups are working on this. Closing as a duplicate of the other issue.