STREET: Simulation Transport for Realistic Engineering Education and Training
STREET, short for Simulating Transportation for Realistic Engineering Education and Training, is a set of web-based simulation modules built to improve teaching in undergraduate units that cover travel demand modelling, geometric design, traffic flow, and traffic signal control.
This project was originally funded by NSF and hosted at the University of Minnesota, but had been taken down in a website reorganisation. TransportLab at the University of Sydney is pleased to rehydrate STREET. Most of the code has been updated from java to javascript so it can run in a modern browser, without requiring package installations. Some additional work was done.
The core idea is that students learn transport better when they can change the system and see what happens. Unlike chemistry and physics, we are limited in transport with what we can do with physical experiments. For some reason, road agencies don’t want us to close roads so we can run experiments on traffic. While textbooks, lectures, and homework are useful, seeing how individual choices, network structure, control logic, and spatial development interact can be more salient than solving an equation.
STREET turns those ideas into small interactive models.
ABODE, estimates origins and destinations with an agent-based model using employment search methods at the individual level. (by Nebiyou Tilahun)
ANGIE models road network growth, including artificial grid-like cities and the Minneapolis Downtown Skyway network. (by Arthur Huang)
CLUSTER is an agent-based model of retail location choice across supply chains linking consumers, retailers, and suppliers. (by Arthur Huang)
HSR Alignment Studio lets students build a corridor, test constraints, and compare defensible route options. (by Joey Zhu)
OASIS helps students understand the control logic of actuated traffic signals. (by Chen-fu Liao and Henry Liu)
ROAD gives students an online roadway geometry design tool using a contour map as the design reference. (by Chen-fu Liao, updated by Alireza Soltani and me)
ROUTE is a hex-grid route design and cost comparison tool with connectivity checks and GMNS export/import. (by Chen-fu Liao)
ULTIMO: an integrated STREET framework for loading GMNS networks, choosing model assemblies, running simulations, editing networks, and exporting diagnostics. It incorporates and extends the earlier versions of ADAM, SONG, and SAND as well as Network Growth models developed as part of earlier research. (by David Levinson, extending work by Bhanu Yerra, Lei Zhang, Shanjiang Zhu, and Feng Xie)
