Installation Guide: MITSIMLab
- Download MITSIMLab from the Linear Road website.
- Extract MITSIMLab into a folder such as /home/username/MITSIMLab
- Make sure your system meets the requiremnts located here.
- 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.
- Make sure that all files in MITSIMLab have execution privileges turned on in Linux.
- 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
- 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.
- Note: MITSIMLab has approximately a 3 to 5 hour running time per expressway depending on computer speed.