ABODE: Agent Based Model of Origin Destination Estimation
ABODE simulates how workers search for jobs and form home-work matches under different employment and wage conditions.
Quick Start
- Open the app and click Setup before running the simulation.
- Use Random seed when you want a repeatable run for comparison.
- Click Start to run continuously, or Step to inspect one tick at a time.
- Watch the monitor cards and charts for unemployment, salary, distance, and tenure patterns.
Example Uses
- Baseline comparison: run the defaults, record unemployment and average trip distance, then rerun with the same seed.
- Employment geography: toggle distributed employment or equalized job centers and compare the home-work links.
- Search behaviour: change worker contacts/search effort and observe how quickly unemployment falls.
Things To Notice
- ABODE is stochastic; compare alternatives with the same random seed when possible.
- The model runs entirely in the browser. No student data is uploaded.
References
- Tilahun, N., and Levinson, D. (2013). An Agent-Based Model of Origin Destination Estimation (ABODE). Journal of Transport and Land Use, 6(1), 73-88. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.v1.271
- Liao, C.-F., Liu, H. X., and Levinson, D. M. (2009). Simulating Transportation for Realistic Engineering Education and Training: Engaging Undergraduate Students in Transportation Studies. Transportation Research Record, 2109, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.3141/2109-02
- Original STREET project: Simulating Transportation for Realistic Engineering Education and Training, University of Minnesota legacy project site. http://street.umn.edu