FSUTMS Comprehensive Modeling Workshop - Cambridge ...

PREFACE
This four-day training course called "FSUTMS Comprehensive Modeling Workshop” will
provide an overview of the transportation planning process, travel demand forecasting
methodologies, and FSUTMS modules under Cube. Participants will learn the underlying
theories of modeling and see the benefits of Cube's abilities to produce presentation
graphics for reports and meetings.
To aid transportation professionals in Florida, the Florida Department of Transportation
Systems Planning Office has developed workshops teaching FSUTMS powered by Cube
Voyager. The workshops will present the transportation planning modeling methods
currently accepted in Florida:
1) FSUTMS Comprehensive Modeling Workshop
2) FSUTMS Executive Summary Workshop
3) FSUTMS Model Calibration Workshop
4) Advanced FSUTMS-Cube & Scripting Workshop
5) FSUTMS Transit Modeling Workshop
6) FHWA Mining Data for Transportation Planning
7) Introduction to ArcGIS Using FSUTMS/Cube (to be developed)
Note: Others may be added as requested by the users in Florida.
The FSUTMS Comprehensive Modeling Workshop will provide an overview of the
transportation planning process, travel demand forecasting methodologies, and FSUTMS
modules and data requirements. Participants will learn to install and execute FSUTMS
powered by Cube, use the menu systems, interpret and create standard output results, and
create and edit networks through a series of hands-on computer exercises. Previous
Geographic Information System (GIS) experience is helpful for this workshop, but not
required. There will be two workshops lasting four days each.
The FSUTMS Executive Summary Workshop will provide an overview of the
transportation planning process, travel demand forecasting methodologies, and FSUTMS
modules under Cube. Participants will learn the underlying theories of modeling and see the
benefits of Cube's abilities to produce presentation graphics for reports and meetings. This
workshop will be designed for managers and non-modelers. There will be one workshop
and it will last one day.
The FSUTMS Model Calibration Workshop will provide the participants technical details
on the FSUTMS process and is designed for transportation professionals who have a basic
understanding of the travel demand forecasting process. The workshop contains lectures on
travel survey techniques, how to create FSUTMS input files from origin and destination
survey data, how to create and interpret trip tables, usage of friction factors and K-factors,
calibration/validation techniques, and criteria, procedures, and accepted standards in
Florida. There will be one workshop and it will last three days.
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