This site has links to data sets, teaching, and training materials suggested by committee members. Please contact Steve Boyles or submit a recommendation form if you have content you would like to have listed here.
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Textbooks and Tutorials
- Transportation Network Analysis, a free textbook written by Stephen Boyles (The University of Texas at Austin), Nicholas Lownes (University of Connecticut), and Avinash Unnikrishnan (Portland State University). Currently, Volume I (static and dynamic traffic assignment) is available in public beta.
- Python tutorial for civil engineering students, developed by Avinash Unnikrishnan (Portland State University) and Stephen Boyles (The University of Texas at Austin).
Full Courses
- Transportation Network Analysis graduate course, with online slides and assignments. Covers basics of network modeling and static traffic assignment. Developed by Stephen Boyles (The University of Texas at Austin).
- Dynamic Traffic Assignment graduate course, with online slides and assignments. Covers elementary traffic flow theory and dynamic traffic assignment. Developed by Stephen Boyles (The University of Texas at Austin).
- Freight Demand Modeling Course materials developed by Sabyasachee Mishra. (University of Memphis)
- Traffic Engineering Course materials developed by Sabyasachee Mishra. (University of Memphis)
Code Repositories
- Pedro Camargo (XI-Optim.com) has developed Aequilibrae, an open-source transportation modeling package written in Python.
- Willem Himpe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) has developed Matlab and Python packages for dynamic traffic assignment, traffic monitoring, control, and visualizing road networks.
- Xuesong Zhou (Arizona State University) has developed open-source software for dynamic traffic assignment and the vehicle routing problem, with special versions for educaiton and research.
- DTALite, a dynamic traffic assignment tool.
- OSM2GMNS, a utility for translating OpenStreetMap data into the GMNS network format. (Documentation).
Data Sets and Problem Instances
- Transportation Networks for Research, a repository of real-world transportation networks primarily meant for static traffic assignment. Maintained by Ben Stabler (RSG) and Hillel Bar-Gera (Ben-Gurion University).
Other Useful Links
- awesome-transit, a list of transit APIs, apps, datasets, research, and software, compiled by Sean Barbeau (University of South Florida)