Treasure Coast Regional Planning Model 4.0 Activity-Based Model Users Guide Prepared for: Florida Department of Transportation District 4 3400 West Commercial Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 Prepared by: The Corradino Group, Inc. 5200 NW 33rd Ave Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc. 400 SW 6th Ave, Suite 802 Portland, OR 97204 March 2015 Table of Contents List of Tables ........................................................................................................................................................................ iv List of Figures ..................................................................................................................................................................... vii CHAPTER 1 INSTALLATION GUIDE .................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 PopSyn ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 CT-RAMP ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Reports ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2 1.4 TCVIZ ................................................................................................................................................................................ 3 CHAPTER 2 SCENARIO SETUP ............................................................................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER 3 Treasure Coast Population Synthesizer .............................................................................................. 10 3.1 ALGORITHM ................................................................................................................................................................ 10 3.2 DATABASE.................................................................................................................................................................... 11 3.3 Control Data Tables Setup ..................................................................................................................................... 12 3.4 CONTROL TOTALS .................................................................................................................................................... 13 3.5 FILE SETUP .................................................................................................................................................................. 14 3.6 POPSYNIII CONFIGURATION FILE ..................................................................................................................... 16 3.7 RUNNING PopSyn III ................................................................................................................................................ 22 3.8 Conversion of Outputs to PopSyn II Formats ................................................................................................ 24 3.9 Appendix A ................................................................................................................................................................... 25 CHAPTER 4 HIGHWAY AND TRANSIT NETWORK CODING ................................................................................ 31 4.1 Highway Networks ............................................................................................................................................ 31 4.2 Transit Coding (MPPTR00B.LIN) ............................................................................................................... 37 CHAPTER 5 HIGHWAY AND TRANSIT SKIMS ........................................................................................................... 40 5.1 Highway Skims ........................................................................................................................................................... 40 5.2 Transit Skims .............................................................................................................................................................. 42 CHAPTER 6 CT-RAMP ACTIVITY BASED MODELING ............................................................................................. 44 6.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 44 6.2 Computing Environment ........................................................................................................................................ 51 6.3 System Design ............................................................................................................................................................. 52 6.4 Setup and Configuration ......................................................................................................................................... 55 6.5 Input Files ..................................................................................................................................................................... 58 6.6 Utility Expression Calculator Files ..................................................................................................................... 60 - ii - 6.7 Model Logging/Trace Results .............................................................................................................................. 61 6.8 Running the Model .................................................................................................................................................... 63 6.9 Output Files.................................................................................................................................................................. 65 6.10 Appendix A Input Files Data Dictionary ........................................................................................................ 66 6.11 Appendix B CT-RAMP Properties File ............................................................................................................ 78 6.12 Appendix C Output Files Data Dictionary .................................................................................................. 111 CHAPTER 7 TCRPM ABM REPORTING DATABASE .............................................................................................. 131 CHAPTER 8 NON-ACTIVITY-BASED MODELS ........................................................................................................ 154 8.1 External-External Model .............................................................................................................................. 154 8.2 External-Internal Model ............................................................................................................................... 156 8.3 Non-ABM Trip Generation ........................................................................................................................... 157 8.4 Non-ABM Distribution .................................................................................................................................. 159 8.5 Trip Assignment .............................................................................................................................................. 161 8.6 Trip-Based File Descriptions ............................................................................................................................. 165 CHAPTER 9 SURVEY AND ACTIVITY MODEL VISUALIZATION SYSTEM .................................................... 184 9.1 Overview .................................................................................................................................................................... 184 9.2 Visualization Dashboard ..................................................................................................................................... 186 9.3 Installation/Setup .................................................................................................................................................. 209 - iii - List of Tables Table 2.1:TCRPM4 CUBE Keys ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Table 2.2: Master TAZ Database Dictionary ................................................................................................................. 7 Table 3.3 Database Tables ................................................................................................................................................. 12 Table 3.4: TC Population Synthesis Controls ............................................................................................................. 13 Table 3.5: Working Directory Contents ........................................................................................................................ 14 Table 3.6: Directory Contents of runtime folder ...................................................................................................... 14 Table 3.7: Directory Contents of outputs folder ......................................................................................................