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Discover Cube 5.0 Tutorial Discover Cube 5.0 Tutorial Citilabs® Discover Cube 5.0 TutorialCopyright © 2008–2011 Citilabs, Inc. All rights reserved. Citilabs is a registered trademark of Citilabs, Inc. All other brand names and product names used in this book are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade names of their respective holders. The information contained in this document is the exclusive property of Citilabs. This work is protected under United States copyright law and the copyright laws of the given countries of origin and applicable international laws, treaties, and/or conventions. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as expressly permitted in writing by Citilabs. Citilabs has carefully reviewed the accuracy of this document, but shall not be held responsible for any omissions or errors that may appear. Information in this document is subject to change without notice Document Revision 50-006-0 February 16, 2011Discover Cube 5.0 Tutorial Contents About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Chapter 1 Introduction to Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Cube software suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Cube Base. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Cube Voyager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Cube Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Cube Dynasim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Cube Analyst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Cube Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Working environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Developer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Applier mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Integration with ArcGIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Integration of the Cube modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Chapter 2 Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter 3 Exploring Cube Base and Cube Voyager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Maps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Understanding the model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Running an existing scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Highway networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Improving network quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Changing the road network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Public transit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Discover Cube 5.0 Tutorial iiiContents Demographic data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Creating maps from demographic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Running demographic-based scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Chapter 4 Exploring Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Working with existing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Examining reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Generating reports for new scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Working with multiple scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Single-scenario reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Multiple-scenario reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Editing existing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 General properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Data labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Multiple scenario comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Generating new reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Creating reports from existing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Cr reports from scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Chapter 5 Exploring Cube Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Cubetown cargo model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Forecasting demand for proposed rail service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Developing a scenario for proposed rail service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Evaluating results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Forecasting impact of rail pricing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Chapter 6 Learning More. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 User support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 User forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Consulting and assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Chapter 7 Acquiring Cube 5.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Licensing options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 iv Discover Cube 5.0 TutorialDiscover Cube 5.0 Tutorial About This Document Welcome to Cube 5.0! Discover Cube 5.0 Tutorial will introduce you to the features and capabilities of Cube. This document includes information and exercises that can help you understand how Cube works, what Cube can do, and how you might start using Cube for analyzing your transportation systems. This document contains the following chapters: • Chapter 1, “Introduction to Cube” — Introduces you to Cube and to the features and architecture of the Cube software suite. • Chapter 2, “Getting Started” — Lists components to install in order to do the exercises. • Chapter 3, “Exploring Cube Base and Cube Voyager” — Guides you through exercises that demonstrate how you can use Cube Base and Cube Voyager when developing data, running scenarios, and examining and analyzing outputs. • Chapter 4, “Exploring Reports” — Guides you through a series of exercises that demonstrate how you can use Cube 5.0 to simplify the analysis and presentation of results from travel forecasting models. • Chapter 5, “Exploring Cube Cargo” — Guides you through a series of exercises that demonstrate how you can use Cube 5.0 to analyze freight traffic. Discover Cube 5.0 Tutorial vAbout This Document • Chapter 6, “Learning More” — Discusses the additional resources available for learning more about Cube. • Chapter 7, “Acquiring Cube 5.0” — Provides more information on how you can acquire a customized Cube software suite. vi Discover Cube 5.0 TutorialDiscover Cube 5.0 Tutorial Introduction to Cube1 This chapter