Advanced Travel Forecasting (TRANSIMS)
TRANSIMS is a series of integrated transportation and air quality analysis and forecasting models being developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The principal components of TRANSIMS are an activity generator an intermodal route planner a traffic microsimulation and an environmental analysis module. The TRANSIMS design has been driven by legislative and analytical requirements that exceed the capabilities of current models and methodologies. To address these concerns TRANSIMS will offer transportation planning agencies increased policy sensitivity more detailed vehicle-emission estimates and improved analysis and visualization capabilities.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Program Information: Surface Transportation Research; Planning, Environment and Realty
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $4353358.00
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Sponsor Organizations:
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Project Managers:
Gardner, Brian
Murakami, Elaine
Yoder, Supin
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Performing Organizations:
RST International Incorporated
,San Francisco County Transportation Authority
San Francisco, CA United StatesKittelson and Associates, Incorporated
610 S.W. Alder Street
Portland, OR United States 97205Bowman Research and Consulting
,Department of Energy
Office of Transportation Systems
Washington, DC United States 20585Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Cambridge, MA United States 02142University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Department of Civil Engineering
500 Pillsbury Drive, SE
Minneapolis, MN United States 55455-0116AECOM Consulting Transportation Group
3101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA United States 22201 - Start Date: 20110131
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- Source Data: RiP Project 34624
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air quality management; Exhaust gases; Intermodal transportation; Pollutants; Traffic forecasting; Traffic simulation; Transportation planning
- Identifier Terms: TRANSIMS (Computer model)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01486030
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Department of Transportation
- Files: RIP
- Created Date: Jul 10 2013 1:00AM