Urban Traffic Behavior Laboratory
Urban Traffic Behavior Laboratory

Founded in 2011, the laboratory has invested nearly 1 million RMB and continues to constrcut. There are a large-screen LCD video wall composed of four 46-inch LCD, two high-performance servers, eight behavior experiment PC platforms and gadgets like handheld GPS navigator, traffic survey instrument, and sound level meter. The laboratory has purchased licenses for various pieces of state-of-the-art professional software such as ArcGIS, Q-Paramics, Vissim/Visum, and AIMMS-Gurobi. With the help of the software, scholars can conduct various tasks such as constructing basic geographic information system, simulating transportation, and optimizing large-scale problems. The lab builds optical fibers to visit real-time operational data of Chengdu Public Transport Group. The lab can also simulates management and control environment of urban public transportation and research passengers’ travel behavior. The lab has carried out research in weather factor influences on public transportation passengers’ travel preference, passengers’ satisfaction degree when waiting for buses and so on and offers several operational suggestions to Chengdu Public Transport Group.