polaris-studio

The polaris-studio package is the Python gateway for all things Polaris

The package consists of three main components, each of which can be used independently from the others.

• Data Model: This has two main uses/goals

  1. Implement a well defined standard for the data models of the POLARIS Supply and Demand databases.

  2. Provide easy-to-use tools for the creation, management and manipulation of existing Polaris input databases (especially the network database).

• Run: Tooling for running POLARIS models and implementing iterative convergence loops using arbitrary study specific logic.

• Analyze: Allows to generate a range of metrics involving both the supply, demand and results databases

A brief overview of some of the features of running and analyzing models can be found in the following video.

Contents

• Getting Started
  • Installation
  • Command Line Interface
• Examples
  • Building Models
  • Editing Models
  • Preparing Inputs
  • Working with existing models
  • Running models
  • Result Analysis
  • Modelling like in the old days
• Prepare
  • Population Synthesis
• Supply
  • Network Data Model
  • Creating a new model supply
  • Editing and consistency
  • Network Checking
  • Traffic elements
  • Public Transport
  • Transit Map-Matching algorithm
  • Import-Export
• Demand Database
  • Demand Data Model
• Results Database
  • Database Structure
• Run
  • The iterative process
  • Model run configurations
  • Customising the process
• Analyze
  • KPI
  • Post-processing
• Contributing to polaris-studio
  • Modifying the software
  • Setting up your dev environment
  • Manually building the documentation
  • Releases
  • Finally
• HPC
  • Defining a job
  • Controlling the system
  • Desktop runners
  • Deploying Runners on Bebop / Crossover
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Installation problems

Compatibility

This package’s evolution goes hand-in-hand with Polaris own evolution, and if you installed polaris-studio using pip will include a compatible version of the POLARIS binaries. If you are using this package with a custom compiled version of POLARIS it is recommended that you directly clone the repository so that you can resolve any incompatibilities with your POLARIS executable and the defined data model.