Transportation network modeling resources

This site has links to data sets, teaching, and training materials I collected in a former role. Please contact me if you have any resources that you think would be helpful to include here. Please also see the shared resources maintained by the Transportation Research Network for additional information.

I do not guarantee the accuracy of the information provided here, or that these links are the most current version. It is your responsibility to ensure that the tools and data listed here are appropriate for your project and environment.

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 (The University of Alabama at Birmingham). Currently, Volume I (static and dynamic traffic assignment) is published.
• An Introduction to Traffic Flow Theory, book by Lily Eleftheriadou.
• Informed Urban Transport Systems, book by Joseph Y. J. Chow.
• Urban Transportation Networks, book by Yossi Sheffi.
• Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis, book by Fred L. Mannering and Scott S. Washburn.
• Python tutorial for civil engineering students, developed by Avinash Unnikrishnan (The University of Alabama at Birmingham) 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 (Outer Loop Consulting) 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).
• Many additional code repositories are listed at the Transportation Research Network site.

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 (DKS Associates) and Hillel Bar-Gera (Ben-Gurion University).
• Many additional data sets are listed at the Transportation Research Network site.

Other Useful Links

• awesome-transit, a list of transit APIs, apps, datasets, research, and software, compiled by Sean Barbeau (Google)
• Some tutorials and talks are listed at the Transportation Research Network site.

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