ultimodel 1.0.1

Universal transport distribution model

ULTImodel

ULTImodel — A universal transport distribution model written in Python.

Description

ULTImodel is a distribution model that helps to spatially distribute road-based transport for countries, including border-crossing travel. It is set up using open data like OSM. The software includes modules for network generation, trip generation and trip distribution based on two main inputs:

• Georeferenced traffic analysis zones (TAZ) for the respective region
• Target value for national transport volume (i.e. person-kilometres or tonne-kilometres)

Installation

The current version is ultimodel-1.0.0.

You may install ULTImodel by executing the following

pip

python -m pip install ultimodel

conda

conda install -c conda-forge ultimodel

You may download a copy or fork the code at ULTImodel's github page.

Besides, you may download the current release here:

• ultimodel-1.0.0.zip
• ultimodel-1.0.0.tar.gz

Usage

Examples of using ULTImodel can be found in the tutorials repository.

Additional documentation can be found at https://ultimodel.readthedocs.io/.

Authors and acknowledgment

ULTImodel was developed by Nina Thomsen.

We want to thank the following persons for the help during ULTImodel's development: Lars Hedemann, Simon Metzler, Gernot Liedtke, Christian Winkler, Tudor Mocanu, and Daniel Krajzewicz.

License

ULTImodel is licensed under the MIT license.

Links

Please find further information on the web:

• The complete documentation is located at https://ultimodel.readthedocs.io/
• The github repository is located at https://github.com/DLR-VF/ULTImodel
• The issue tracker is located at https://github.com/DLR-VF/ULTImodel/issues

Legal

Please find the legal information here: https://github.com/DLR-VF/ULTImodel/blob/master/ultimodel-mkdocs/docs/legal.md