13-15 September 2017, Aimsun Foundation Course, London

This three-day hands-on Aimsun foundation course will be held from Wednesday 13th September to Friday 15th September in central London, an easy walk from the Farringdon, Chancery, and Holborn Underground stations, and close to Piccadilly Circus.

The course is aimed at both new users and users who wish to refresh or extend their skills in microscopic and mesoscopic simulations.

Course Contents

Morning session: 09:00 – 13:00 (including a 15-min break)
Afternoon session: 14:00 – 17:00 (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

Please contact info@aimsun.com for prices and registration details.

Location

WeWork Waterhouse Square

138 Holborn

London EC1N 2SW