Development Roadmap

This page maintains current, future, and wishlist related developments to the VisionEval model system. The current set of work packages are:

• Setting Up VisionEvalincluding VERSPM Migration
• VERPAT Migration
• Upcoming

This page also maintains a set of wishlist/enhancements, which may overlap with the project Issues.

• Wishlist

Setting Up VisionEval, including VERSPM Migration

This current work task is described in more detail here

VERPAT Migration

The translation of RPAT to VERPAT still needs to be completed. The plan is for VERPAT to utilize and/or revise VE modules as needed. For example:

• household() will start from VESimHouseholds and VESyntheticFirms
• urban() will start from VELandUse
• accessibility() will start from VETransportSupply
• vehicle() will start from VEVehicleOwnership
• demand() will start from VETravelDemand
• congestion()
• policy congestion()

Upcoming

• Improve the graphic user interface and integrate the dashboard/visualizer
• Improve documentation

Wishlist

• Safety and security: link policies to safety outcomes including ITS, autonomous vehicles, multimodal countermeasures
• Mobility: roadway and ITS mobility measure, better congestion model sensitive to network connectivity, local/long distance freight modules, roadway reliability
• Accessibility and connectivity: impact of well-connected bike/walk network, transit-autonomous vehicle connections, expanded TDM programs, intercity commutes and distance to CBD, modules to address emerging modes
• Community and economic vitality: Research on economic growth outcomes and feedback, congestion pricing
• Land use: allow specific multimodal impacts based on built form, employment and work location attributes
• Equity: transit access, shared economic growth, affordable housing indicator, case studies of equity measures from existing outputs
• Environmental stewardship: availability of EV charging infrastructure
• Strategic investment and financial responsibility: improved cost accounting framework (life cycle cost, asset management, user cost by income, transit fares)
• Integration with other tools like TREDIS, ITHIM, land use sketch tools, input pre-processor (bike, ITS, TO)
• US/global comparisons for inputs
• Case studies of use of results