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TransModeler is a powerful and versatile traffic simulation package applicable to a wide array of planning and modeling tasks. The two day training session by Caliper Corporation is offered free for UF students (Please RSVP for the event).
When: March 14-15 (Thursday and Friday)
Where: Weil 457 (Thursday 9 to 12), Weil 513 (Thursday 12.30 to 6pm and Friday 9 to 6pm)
Refreshments will be provided.
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Training Instructor Biography:
Daniel Morgan is the Vice President of Traffic Simulation at Caliper Corporation. He has 16 years’ experience in transportation both as a developer of traffic simulation software and as practitioner of traffic simulation modeling. Dan has been the product manager for TransModeler, Caliper’s traffic simulation software, since the software’s release, has overseen the software’s training and technical support services, and has been project manager for pioneering transportation studies involving the development, calibration, and application of wide-area microsimulation and dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) models for clients across the US.
In his time at Caliper, Dan has managed some of the most challenging traffic simulation projects ever attempted in practice or academia. These projects include microsimulation of increasingly wider areas, beginning with a microsimulation model of Eureka, CA, population 27,000, for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) in 2010 and culminating in 2017 with the completion of a microsimulation model of the Phoenix, AZ metropolitan area, population 4.7 million, for the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG). Dan’s efforts to make microsimulation cost-effective for wide areas continued in 2018 with a research project for FHWA involving simulation of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in the six-county Jacksonville, FL metropolitan area and projects for the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to develop regional simulation models for the Las Vegas and Detroit metropolitan areas, respectively.
Dan has also managed the integration of microsimulation with other aspects of traffic modeling and analysis, including, most notably, traffic signal optimization, traffic impact analysis, and managed lanes modeling with dynamic pricing. In recent years, Dan has managed projects to develop corridor microsimulation models for both private express lane operators and state departments of transportation. The models have been used to evaluate express toll lane pricing strategies and to estimate express lane capture and revenue for investment grade traffic and revenue (T&R) studies.
Prior to joining Caliper, Dan worked as a researcher and transportation analyst for the Texas Transportation Institute while pursuing his Bachelor of Science at the University of Texas and then for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Lab while earning his Master of Science in Transportation. At MIT, Dan contributed substantially to the development of microsimulation tools for analyzing advanced public transportation systems in MITSIMLab, the ITS Lab’s microsimulation software.