Implementing the Solano Napa Model in Cube

Transportation leadership you can trust.

presented byLawrence Liao, Cambridge Systematics, Inc.

Implementing Solano Napa Model In Cube App Manager

presented at

FUTURA 2011

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Solano and Napa Counties

Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) – the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) in San Francisco Bay Area

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Model Area

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Solano Napa Travel Demand Model

Provides traffic forecasts for major roadways in Solano and Napa counties

4-Step model • Land use data prepared in Excel • Auto Ownership & Trip Generation models use

MTC BAYCAST programs• Other 3 steps in TP+ scripts

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MTC 4-Step Model

BAYCAST-90 denotes the 1990 Bay Area household travel survey-based travel demand models

32-bit Fortran programs

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Original Model Folder Structure

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Original User’s Guide

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Objectives

Make SNTDM work on client’s (64-bit) and model users’ (32-bit) computers

Streamline the modeling process

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Challenges

64-bit Windows 7 doesn’t support 32-bit BAYCAST-90 programs natively• DOSBOX• WindowXP Virtual Machine

Using App Manager to control entire modeling process which includes:• Excel spreadsheets• 32-bit BAYCAST-90 programs• TP+ scripts (easy)