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)

• Scenario comparison

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.