Run the Primary Example

To setup and run the primary example (see Examples) from the command line interface, do the following:

• Open the mamba or conda command prompt

• If you installed ActivitySim using conda environments, activate the conda environment with ActivitySim installed (i.e. conda activate asim)

Note

Most conda and mamba commands can be used interchangeably in the mamba command prompt. In the above step, you could instead use mamba activate asim in the mamba command prompt.

• Or, if you used the pre-packaged installer, replace all the commands below that call activitysim ... with the complete path to your installed location, which is probably something like c:\programdata\activitysim\scripts\activitysim.exe.

• Type activitysim create -e prototype_mtc -d test_prototype_mtc to copy the very small prototype_mtc example to a new test_prototype_mtc directory

• Change to the test_prototype_mtc directory cd test_prototype_mtc

• Type activitysim run -c configs -o output -d data to run the example

• Review the outputs in the output directory

• ActivitySim will log progress and write outputs to the output folder.

The example should run in a few minutes since it runs a small sample of households.

Note

Common configuration settings can be overridden at runtime. See activitysim -h, activitysim create -h and activitysim run -h. ActivitySim model runs can be configured with settings file inheritance to avoid duplicating settings across model configurations. See Command Line Interface for more information.

Additional examples, including the full scale prototype MTC regional demand model, estimation integration examples, multiple zone system examples, and examples for agency partners are available for creation by typing activitysim create -l. To create these examples, ActivitySim downloads the (large) input files from the ActivitySim resources repository. See Examples for more information.