MILATRAS: a microsimulation platform for testing transit-ITS policies and technologies

As innovative technological solutions are integrated with transit services, it is useful to have a tool for evaluating and refining new strategies prior to the deployment. MILATRAS is an environment, where travel demand modelers, can experiment with possible transit-ITS technologies and policies, while dynamic microsimulation sub-models of dynamic departure time and transit path choices, passenger's perception updating and passenger's within-day and day-to-day travel choice dynamics are properly represented. The proposed framework can be used to generate and evaluate different transit-ITS policies. Currently, a full scale implementation of the City of Brampton transit system, Ontario, is under construction. The Brampton transit system operates around 150 buses on 32 routes, serving nearly 25,000 daily rides