Friday, January 21, 2011

Running a Zone-Based Model

Been a while cleaning, packing and clearing up, but thankfully nearing the home stretch so I'll be trying to put more time into this =)


Trust me to make a silly mistake - that's why it's called usability testing in some circles (of course the argument becomes is it a silly mistake or poor design...).

In any case, I did this originally last month, generating an AttributeError:


I should have done this, yielding a successful run from 2006 to 2019:


Nice, the San Antonio zone-based model does work! Now to study it in more depth to see what ways I may be able to get Sydney datasets in here.

One thing that will be useful is analysing the logs. OPUS for this model generated over 800MB of logs for this approx. 5 minute simulation run, much of it scrolls by on the command line (compare above and below):


These are also viewable in the Log tab of the OPUS GUI.

A quick WinDirStat shows the vast majority of this size is in .li4 and .lf4 files, another OPUS internal to investigate: