Scenario Analysis, Mapping, and Reporting with Cube
August 11-12
This course is intended for anyone interested in learning more about cube. The course material caters to the analysts who need to apply existing models and produce meaningful summary data, maps, and reports.

Attendees will learn:

• The best methods of setting up and running multiple model scenarios.
• How to inspect, analyze, and compare model output.
• How to create standardized maps, charts, and reports.

Prerequisites: None



Cube Base 5 for users of Cube Base 4.x
August 13
This course provides comprehensive, hands-on training in Cube Base 5. Cube 5 represents a major change in Cube, providing an integrated ArcGIS solution within Cube Base. In essence Cube Base 5 provides a merging of Citilabs’ transportation and modeling GIS tools with ArcGIS. This provides an extremely powerful analysis system. One key element is the use of the ESRI geodatabase for the storage and sharing of model network data with the complete GIS team. This course will focus on the changes implemented from Cube 4.x to Cube 5.

Software used: Cube Base 5.0

The course will cover:


• Importing and exporting data to Cube Base 5.0
• Using the geodatabase for networks in Cube Base 5.0
• Highway network development and editing in Cube Base 5.0
• Public transport network development and editing in Cube Base 5.0
• Graphics and mapping with Cube Base 5.0

Prerequisites: Scenario Analysis, Mapping, and Reporting with Cube or equivalent experience. Good familiarity with Cube Base 4.1 or earlier.



Large Scale Traffic Simulation with Cube Avenue
August 14
This course teaches how to code input data, how to setup or modify existing Cube Voyager scripts to apply Cube Avenue and how to simulate, calibrate and analyze time-dynamic traffic flows. Cube Avenue is a dynamic traffic assignment modeling extension for Cube Voyager. It enables users to simulate time-dynamic path choice, route selection, assignment and congestion using individual vehicles or vehicle packets. It represents queuing and the blocking back of upstream traffic. It can be applied on very large-scale urban area networks or on smaller sub-regions and is suitable for the simulation of traffic flows during peak periods, all day or even several days studying time-dependent traffic policies and conditions. It is useful for general urban area network studies and also for the simulation of special event traffic and evacuations.

Software used: Cube Base, Cube Voyager, Cube Avenue

The course will cover:

• Network representation
• Demand representation
• Scripting to apply Cube Avenue
• Calibration of Cube Avenue
• Review and analysis of results from Cube Avenue

Prerequisites: Intermediate Application Development with Cube Voyager or equivalent experience. Good familiarity with traffic assignment methods and the use of Cube Voyager.

Distributing Models across Multiple Processors with Cube Cluster
August 15
This course teaches users how to use Cube Cluster commands within their Cube Voyager script files to distribute model processes across available computing resources to improve model run time performance. Cube Cluster enables the user to run and control their travel models across multiple computer processors whether contained within one computer or multiple PCs. Cube Cluster is currently used to allocate matrix-based processes (mode choice, mode-destination choice, matrix manipulations) and highway assignment breaking out zone-based calculations across the processors and bringing the results back on the master PC forming unified datasets and reports. It can equally be used to control the running of multiple steps across processors.

Software used: Cube Base, Cube Voyager, Cube Cluster

The course will cover:

• Concepts behind Cube Cluster
• Developing a strategy for 'clusterizing' your model
• Implementation of Cube Cluster scripting commands
• Optimization of Cube Cluster

Prerequisites: Intermediate Application Development with Cube Voyager or equivalent experience. Good familiarity with the Cube Scripting language and of matrix and highway assignment concepts


Location
The courses will all be held at the offices of the Atlanta Regional Commission in their computer training facility (an ESRI Official Southeast Training Center) in beautiful Downtown Atlanta. The R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr. Center for the Regional Community houses the ARC offices

Hotels:
Citilabs does not arrange hotel accommodations. There are several hotels within five or six blocks of this location.

Parking:
Paid parking is available in United Way’s parking deck adjacent to the building.

Directions and Public Transportation: Access to this location is available via MARTA. For more detailed information on accessing this location please visit
http://www.atlantaregional.com

Course Fee
Courses cost:

1 day: US$500
2 days: US$900
3 days: US$1300
4 days: US$1700
5 days: US$2000

Tuition includes the cost of the training and all training materials. Computers and applicable software will be furnished at the training site.

Registration
Please fill out the training registration form and return it via mail, email or fax to the address below, complete with credit card information (Visa or MasterCard only), check, or purchase order. Registrations are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Seating availability for these courses will be limited.
Further information is available on the registration form.