Installation Guide: MITSIMLab

  1. Download MITSIMLab from the Linear Road website.
  2. Extract MITSIMLab into a folder such as /home/username/MITSIMLab
  3. Make sure your system meets the requiremnts located here.
  4. Edit the mitsim.config file located in the MITSIMLab folder to update the proper database information. Make sure the following variables are properly set:
    • databasename: should match the data base name you used setting up Postgres.
    • databaseuser: should match the username used by Postgres
    • databasepassword: should match the password for the user in step 4.
    • directoryforoutput: The directory where you'd like your MITSIM data files created. Please use the full path such as /home/username/MITSIMLab/data/
      • Note: This directory must be writable by PostgreSQL user. It is advisable that you change this directory to writable to all users before doing step 6.
    • numberofexpressways: number of expressways you'd like MITSIMLab to generate. The system excepts any number starting at 0.5 incremented by 0.5. Thus the first three acceptable values are: 0.5, 1, 1.5.
  5. Make sure that all files in MITSIMLab have execution privileges turned on in Linux.
  6. To start MITSIMLab type in "./run mitsim.config" and hit enter.
    • ./run accepts a filename as its argument. The file is expected to contain all of the properties described in step 7. Otherwise, you may pass in a blank file and the default values will be used.
    • The default file with all of the properties is called mitsim.config. You may rename it as you see fit, just make sure to pass the new name as an argument when starting MITSIMLab
  7. MITSIM output will be in the folder designated as the directoryforoutput above. Three ouput files: cardatapoints.out, historical-tolls.out, maxCarid.out will be needed to run the benchmark.