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The purpose of this presentation is to share a new approach to model visualization and investigation. Travel and land use models are complex, requiring and generating a great deal of data. The Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Statewide Integrated Model (SWIM) produces gigabytes of data that have historically been cumbersome to sort through and glean useful information from. ODOT has worked on visualization of model results during specific analysis projects over the last few years, but these efforts have been disjointed and coarse. As a result, visualization was approached as a separate, coherent goal aimed at creating an efficient, comprehensive tool for viewing modeling results. The project was split into two distinct tasks which significantly changed how the model is visualized, and more importantly, how model results can be investigated. The first task was to develop a reporting/visualization database using open source technologies. This database centralized and structured the model outputs in a consistent manner that could be automated to follow a model run. Properly structuring the data in a generic/normalized fashion allowed for the development of a tool to query/mine the data. The second task was to develop an open source Adobe Flash/Flex interactive application that connects to the visualization database, allows for standard and custom data queries, and presents results in dynamic tables, charts, and maps. The application can illustrate changes over time and differences between scenarios automatically. The real value of the new tool is the speed at which model results can be investigated, patterns revealed and relationships better understood, and scenario ”stories” put together to share with others. Finally, the dynamic visualization platform has already proven its worth by bringing to light model results that had previously been lost in all the model complexity.

01483192

English

7p

2010

12th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

Digital/other

CD-ROM; Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Data collection; Databases; Evaluation and assessment; Land use planning; Travel demand; Visualization

Data modeling

Oregon

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jun 25 2013 2:40PM

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