TRANSIMS (TRansportation ANalysis SImulation Systems)
Unclassified technical reports and published papers related to TRANSIMS, including its documentation, are available to the broader research community to provide detailed information on the methods, data, and case studies associated with TRANSIMS. The work reported in many of these papers was done by NDSSL team members and collaborating researchers while working on the TRANSIMS project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. We invite researchers to post related papers on the NDSSL website by sending a pdf file of the paper with the appropriate citation to: ndssl-reports@vbi.vt.edu. General TRANSIMS requests can be sent to transims@vbi.vt.edu. The U.S. Department of Transportation provides additional details on TRANSIMS, including the latest version of the source code. Commercial support is available from IBM.Documentation for TRANSIMS Version 3.1
Volume 2 -- Networks and Vehicles
Volume 3 Chapter 1 -- Framework
Volume 3 Chapter 2 -- Population Synthesizer
Volume 3 Chapter 3 -- Activity Generator
Volume 3 Chapter 4 -- Route Planner
Volume 3 Chapter 5 -- Microsimulator
Volume 3 Chapter 6 -- Selectors
Volume 3 Chapter 7 -- Emmissions Estimator
Volume 3 Chapter 8 -- Output Visualizer
Volume 4 -- Calibrations, Scenarios, -- -- and Tutorials
Volume 5 -- Software Interfaces
Volume 7 Chapter 1 -- Mode Choice
Reports on the Portland Study
Volume 0 - Contents
Volume 1 - Introduction/Overview
Volume 2 - Study Setup: Parameters and Input Data
Volume 2 Chapter 1 - Network
Volume 2 Chapter 2 - Population
Volume 2 Chapter 3 - Activity Generation
Volume 2 Chapter 4 - Router
Volume 2 Chapter 5 - Microsimulation
Volume 3 - Feedback Loops
Volume 3 Chapter 1 - Shared Rides
Volume 3 Chapter 2 - Calibration of River Crossing Screen Lines
Volume 3 Chapter 3 - Experimental Mode Choice and Long Walks
Volume 3 Chapter 4 - Stabilization
Volume 3 Chapter 5 - Mode Choice
Volume 4 - General Results
Volume 4 Chapter 1 - Population
Volume 4 Chapter 2 - Activities
Volume 4 Chapter 3 - Routes
Volume 4 Chapter 4 - Microsimulator
Volume 5 - Postprocessing for Environmental Analysis
Volume 5 Chapter 1 - Environmental Module Overview
Volume 5 Chapter 2 - Application to Portland
Volume 5 Chapter 3 - Module Testing and Calibration
Volume 5 Chapter 4 - Portland Emissions
Volume 7 - Appendix: Scripts, Configuration Files, Special Travel Time Functions
Volume 7 Chapter 1 - Default Configuration
Volume 7 Chapter 2 - PS-1
Volume 7 Chapter 3 - AS-1
Volume 7 Chapter 4 - AS-2
Volume 7 Chapter 5 - AS-3
Volume 7 Chapter 6 - AS-4
Volume 7 Chapter 7 - AS-5
Volume 7 Chapter 8 - AS-6
Volume 7 Chapter 9 - AS-7
Volume 7 Chapter 10 - RS-7
Volume 7 Chapter 11 - MS-7
Volume 7 Chapter 12 - RS-m
Volume 7 Chapter 13 - Mode Feedback
Volume 7 Chapter 14 - MS-E
Volume 7 Chapter 15 - EM-F
TRANSIMS Related Publications
C. Barrett, K. Bisset, R. Jacob, G. Konjevod, and M.V. Marathe. An Experimental Analysis of a Routing Algorithm for Realistic Transportation Networks. Proc. European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). Rome, Sept. 2002.
M.V. Marathe. Routing in Very Large Multi-Modal Time Dependent Networks: Theory and Practice. Proc. Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways (ATMOS 2002), Malaga, Spain, 2002.
R. Jacob, M.V. Marathe, and K. Nagel. A Computational Study of Routing Algorithms for Realistic Transportation Networks. Invited paper appears in the special issue of ACM J. Experimental Algorithmics containing selected papers presented at the 2nd Workshop on Algorithmic Engineering, 4(6) 1999. http://www.jea.acm.org/1999/JacobRouting/.
C. Barrett, R. Jacob, and M.V. Marathe. Formal Language Constrained Path Problems. SIAM J. Computing, 30(3) 2001: 809–837.