Take the “guessing” out.

Why TRANSIMS?

TRANSIMS is an agent-based simulation system capable of simulating the second-by-second movements of every person and every vehicle through the transportation network of a large metropolitan area.

It consists of mutually supporting simulations, models, and databases. By employing advanced computational and analytical techniques, it creates an integrated environment for regional transportation system analysis.

TRANSIMS is designed to give transportation planners more accurate, complete information on

traffic impacts,
energy consumption,
traffic congestion,
land use planning,
traffic safety,
intelligent vehicle efficiencies, and
emergency evacuation.

TRANSIMS-LANL vs. TRANSIMS-DOT

The core code version of TRANSIMS (TRANSIMS-LANL), developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is distributed for a nominal fee to universities on this Web site. The commercial version of TRANSIMS (TRANSIMS-DOT) was developed from the core software package especially for the Department of Transportation by IBM, and it has a more elaborate interface and specific features to meet requirements by the DOT. It is not available on this Web site.

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TRANSIMS is a set of new transportation and air-quality analysis and forecasting software developed to meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, and other regulations.

TRANSIMS was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory with funding from the U. S. Department of Transportation (Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the Travel Model Improvement Program.

For information on how to receive TRANSIMS-DOT for commercial use, contact

Naveen Lamba
IBM Business Consulting Services
Email: Naveen.Lamba@us.ibm.com
Phone: (703) 322-5656
http://www.transims.net

For information on how to receive TRANSIMS-LANL for university use, contact

Charles Gibson
LANL Technology Transfer Office
Email: gibson_charles_e@lanl.gov
Phone: (505) 665-0154

The University version of TRANSIMS (TRANSIMS-LANL) runs ONLY on Linux platform.