InputFiles

The table below contains brief descriptions of the input files required to execute the MTC travel model.

File name	Purpose	Folder Location	File type	File format
comeplete_network_with_externals.NET	Highway network	hwy\	Citilabs Cube	HighwayNetworkCoding
ZMAST.dbf	Travel analysis zone-specific data. Gets copied to the scenario folder as TAZDATA.dbf and later converted to csv format	landuse\	DBF	TazData
tolls.csv	Toll values by TOLLBOOTH, TOLLSEG and vehicle types allowed on the link.	landuse\	DBF	HighwayNetworkCoding
walkAccessBuffers. float.csv	Walk access shares	landuse\	CSV	WalkAccessBuffers
port_sg_2015.dbf	Special generators for Trucks.	nonres\Inputs\calib	DBF	TruckDistribution
AC10IXXI.DBF	Truck trips to external gateway	nonres\Inputs\	DBF	TruckDistribution
SD2TAZ_KF.PRN	Share of trips for each Superdistrict by TAZs	landuse\	fixed width text file	TruckDistribution
Kfactors_SD.MAT	K-Factors from Superdistricts to TAZs	nonres\Inputs\Kfactors	Matrix	TruckDistribution
truckFF_IItm15_.dat	Friction factors for the commercial vehicle distribution models for internal-internal trips, contains FF for small, medium and combination trucks	nonres\Inputs\Calib	ASCII	TruckDistribution
truckFF_IEEI.dat	Friction factors for the commercial vehicle distribution models for internal-external trips, contains FF for small, medium and combination trucks	nonres\Inputs\Calib	ASCII	TruckDistribution
vstruck.fftm15.dat	Friction factors for the commercial vehicle distribution models for very small trucks. Comes from Travel Model 1.5	nonres\Inputs\Calib	ASCII	TruckDistribution
TAZ2CO.dat	Renumbers TAZ trips to County. Used for summarizing truck trips.	landuse	ASCII	TruckDistribution
2015_XX_trips	External truck trips from 2015	nonres\	Citilabs Cube	TruckDistribution
ixDaily2015.tpp	Internal-external fixed trip table	nonres\	Citilabs Cube	FixedDemand
ixDaily2015_totals.csv	Internal-external total trips. Converted to dbf.	nonres\	CSV	FixedDemand
IZ_OZ_PCT_EXT.dat	Reprojects MTC TM 1.5 1454 TAZ system to Ala-CC Bicounty Model 6593 TAZs. The four columns are TAZ1454, Ala-CC BCM TAZ, Percent of Trips to be distributed from TM 1.5 to BCM	nonres\	dat	FixedDemand
ixex_config.csv	Interregional commercial travel assumptions from Box\Horizon and Plan Bay Area 2050\Futures Planning\Modeling Characteristics\Interregional Volume Assumptions\Interregional Volumes v2.xlsx	nonres\	CSV	Exit TAZs only
hhFile. YYYY.csv	Synthetic population household file created by PopulationSim ( YYYY denotes the forecast year)	popsyn\	CSV	PopSynHousehold
personFile. YYYY.csv	Synthetic population person file created by PopulationSim( YYYY denotes the forecast year)	popsyn\	CSV	PopSynPerson
Various	Myriad transit files used to define the transit network and service	trn\	Various	TransitNetworkCoding
tripsXX.tpp	Warm start passenger trip tables (XX is the TimePeriods code)	warmstart\ main	Citilabs Cube	As output by the travel model
tripsIxXX.tpp	Warm start internal external trip tables (XX is the TimePeriods code)	warmstart\ nonres	Citilabs Cube	As output by the travel model
tripsTrkXX.tpp	Warm start commercial vehicle trip tables (XX is the TimePeriods code)	warmstart\ nonres	Citilabs Cube	As output by the travel model
tripsAirPaxXX.tpp	Warm start air passenger trip tables (XX is the TimePeriods code)	warmstart\ nonres	Citilabs Cube	FixedDemand
tripsHsrXX YYYY.tpp	Warm start Highspeed rail passenger trip tables (XX is the TimePeriods code, YYYY is the scenario year)	warmstart\ nonres	Citilabs Cube	FixedDemand