TRANSIMS Research and Deployment Support. Kick-off meeting.

1. TRANSIMS Research and Deployment Support. Kick-off meeting. Computational Engineer Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center Energy Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory October 27, 2011 Dr. Hubert Ley, Dr. Vadim Sokolov, Dr. Joshua Auld Dr. Kuilin Zhang, Mr. Michael Hope

2. Reporting • Monthly highlights (1-2) pages. To be available @wiki.anl.gov/megapolis • Monthly meetings with Brian Gardner. Monthly notes to be prepared prior to meetings @ http://anl.adobe.com/transims • Quarterly reports • Publications in journals, Conference presentations

3. Resources • Is carry over allowed? • Hire a postdoc, preferably CS grad, with machine learning or AI background, with experience in working on a large scale software development project • Recommendations from Brian on a candidate

4. Task Overview • Task 1: Administration • Task 2: Transport Simulation Interoperability Research • Task 3: Command, Control, Communication, and Information Model Prototype • Task 4: Deployment Support • Task 5: Computing Support

5. Motivation for a New TRANSIMS Component • Proper delivery of Tasks 2 and 3 will be predicated on development of a prototype with the following characteristics: • Accessible to the transportation community • Ability to be calibrated and validated • High performance • Extensibility to entirely new applications • High degree of modularity / flexibility • A model able to satisfy Tasks 2 and 3 must have the following capabilities: • An architecture which allows the agent to be informed actively by transportation elements traditionally outside the scope of an activity based model such as: prevailing congestion or dynamic network state • An architecture which allows the 3CI systems to cause behavioral adjustments across numerous traveler actions such as: driving tactics, route choice, and activity choice

6. Motivation for a New TRANSIMS Component cont’d • Possible ways to satisfy the requirements of Task 2 and 3: • Loosely couple existing activity choice, routing, 3CI, and simulation codes through extensive source code modification and message or file passing • Heavily upgrade the TRANSIMS 5.0 Simulator to flesh out route choice and add activity choice / 3CI support • Start fresh and develop a tool which fits into the TRANSIMS toolbox, but which exactly satisfies the delivery requirements • It is the current assertion of the TRACC team that the final option holds the best potential to both satisfy the requirements of the contract as well as provide the basis for a novel new framework for transportation planning models

7. Megapolis Overview • “Megapolis” is the codename for the new TRANSIMS tool to be developed • Megapolis is a single integrated utility which will handle the following TRANSIMS tasks in a single execution run: • Activity Generation and Scheduling • Activity Planning including Destination, and Mode Choice • Time Dependent Route Choice • Low Resolution Simulation: Queuing Model • High Resolution Simulation: Car Following, Lane Changing, and En-Route Path Choice • Additionally, Megapolis will handle the following tasks specific to this project: • Activity and route choice informed by prevailing network state and congestion as well as predicted future network state and congestion • Modeling of 3CI systems able to affect a large variety of potential agent actions, flexible custom implementation

8. Integration With TRANSIMS Dynamic Modeling Results Inspection Static Modeling TRANSIMS Network Generation Megapolis TRANSIMS Output Files or TRANSIMS ArcTools TRANSIMS Signal Generation TRANSIMS Activity Generation TRANSIMS Visualizer TRANSIMS Router TRANSIMS Transit Network Generation Tool Integration TRANSIMS Simulator TRANSIMS Studio

9. Major Megapolis ComponentsFoundational • Task Scheduler • Acts as a “job submission” system for various tasks within the software in order to parallelize and load balance the work • Data Containers Library • Specialized data containers to optimize certain aspects of data use such as memory usage, element access speed, or thread safety • API to data structures rooted in STL API, most will be a wrapper around STL structures • Discrete Choice Model Sub-Processor • Highly optimized engine to evaluate many classes of discrete choice models – the basis of agent choice in many of the other modules (regression models, nested-logit, first order logic, Bayes network, neural networks)

10. Major Megapolis ComponentsModeling • Activity-Based Demand Model • Activity Generation Model • Activity Planning Model • Destination, Mode, Party Composition and Timing Choice Model • Activity Scheduling • Path Choice • Route Choice Model – A* + Lookup tables for paths between “hubs” • En Route Choice Model – D* / D*Lite • Driver Simulation • Strategic Lane Choice Model – Lane Utility Model • Discretionary Lane Choice Model – Intelligent Driver Model • Car Following Model - Intelligent Driver Model • Intersection passing model

11. Activity-based Demand Model OpenAMOS • Combine concepts from ADAPTS, OpenAMOS, and others • ADAPTS/AMOS – planning of activities concurrent with travel simulation • ADAPTS adds: • planning ahead (future timesteps) • Flexible planning order of activities/attributes • Modeled activity fixity/flexibility • Replace AMOS activity-travel simulator ADAPTS

12. Major Megapolis ComponentsIntegration • IO Library • Library which handles file structures, reading, writing, and serialization for restart • Batch Iteration Model for Cluster Operation • Tool to design and execute a sequence of Megapolis runs to establish an equilibrium in results • Visual Interface / Model Feedback Mechanism • Use of TransimsVIS and existing TRANSIMS utilities for initial feedback • Graduated development of additional visual module used for interactive feedback during model execution

13. Bug Tracking and Roadmap • https://trac.anl.gov/megapolis/ - An open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool will be used for this project • Argonne SVN to be used for version control • Trac is integrated with svn • svn.anl.gov/megapolis/ • Available from outside of ANL domain • Accessible for ac.bgardner • Roadmap at trac.anl.gov/megapolis/roadmap • https://wiki.anl.gov/megapolis/ - An Argonne MediaWiki page used by the team for internal communication, project layout, and reporting • Supports file and media upload / display • Uses simple wiki language and linked page structure • Accessible for ac.bgardner