18-20 January 2017, Aimsun foundation course, New York City
Paolo Rinelli will be the tutor for this three-day Aimsun foundation course, to be held in central New York City, Wednesday January 18th – Friday January 20th.
The course is aimed at new users and users who wish to refresh or extend their skills in microscopic and mesoscopic simulations.
Course Contents
Morning session: 09:00 – 12:30 (including a 15 min break)
Afternoon session: 13:30 – 18:00 (including a 15 min break)
Editing a model (5 h)
- Geometry, traffic demand, signals, public transport
Managing scenarios(1 h)
- Dynamic scenarios, experiments and replications
- Revisions
Outputs (1 h 30 min)
- Time series, thematic maps
Outputs (continued) (30 min)
Traffic management (4 h)
- Traffic management actions
- Modelling incidents and mitigation strategies
- Modelling turn restrictions, reversible lanes, and other scheduled events
Dynamic traffic assignment (3 h)
- Dynamic traffic assignment framework
- Cost functions
- Stochastic route choice algorithm and parameters
- Dynamic user equilibrium algorithm and parameters
- Practical applications
Microscopic network loading (3 h 45 min)
- Microscopic vehicle behaviour
- Calibration of a microscopic model
Mesoscopic and hybrid network loading (3 h 45 min)
- Mesoscopic vehicle behaviour
- Calibration of a mesoscopic model
- Guidelines for hybrid microscopic-mesoscopic simulation
Prices and registration
If you would like to attend this Aimsun training session, then please fill out the registration form and send it to info@aimsun.com as quickly as possible as places are limited.
Our training courses are in small groups with plenty of hands-on exercises
Scenario comparison
Mesoscopic simulation of Disneyland
Microsimulation of Belo Horizonte