TransCAD

Working with Matrices

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 Matrices

 Matrices can contain data that are essential for

transportation applications, but do not fit comfortably
into spreadsheets or databases. TransCAD provides a
broad and powerful set of tools for storing, displaying,
editing, and manipulating data in matrix form.
 A Matrix contains rows and columns. Each row is
identified by a row ID, and each column by a column
ID. Each entry in the matrix is called a cell and has a
value that describes something about the row and
column.

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 Matrices

 TransCAD stores matrices in a matrix file. A matrix

file contains one or more matrices, each of which
contains the exact same set of rows and columns.
 You can use TransCAD to create, modify, and edit
matrix files of any size. In addition, many
TransCAD modes and procedures create matrix
files as output. For example:
 The multiple shortest path procedure can create a matrix
file showing the distance between a set of origins and a
set of destinations.

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 Creating Matrices

 You create a new, empty matrix file by choosing

the following:
 The layer or dataview on which the matrix file is built
 The dataview field you want to use to identify the rows
and columns of the matrix file
 Which features or records from the dataview should
appear in the matrix file
 You must choose one numeric field from the layer
or dataview to use as the ID for the rows and
columns of the matrix file.
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 To Create a New Matrix File

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 To Add a Matrix to a Matrix
File

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 To Change the Matrix Labels

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 To Display Matrix Row and Co
lumn Marginals

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 To Sort a Matrix View

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 To Find a Cell in a Matrix

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 To Change the Font, Format,
and Other Settings

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 To Fill Cells with a Single
Value

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 To Fill a Matrix Cell by Cell

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 To Fill a Matrix with a Formula

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 To Fill a Matrix Using Vector
Multiplication

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 To Update a Matrix

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 To Append Matrices to a
Matrix File

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 To Sum All the Matrices in a
Matrix File

Summarize two
Matrices

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 To Add a Matrix Index

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 To Display a Portion of a
Matrix

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 To Create Desire Lines
(Desire.wrk)

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 To Impost a Dataview into a
Matrix
Activate a dataview first

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 To Export a Matrix to a New
Table
Activate a Matrix first

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 To Copy a Matrix File

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 To Transpose a Matrix File

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 To Combine Matrix Files

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 To Perform Matrix
Multiplication

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 Options for Storing Matrix

 TransCAD has a number of options for how matrices are

stored and accessed. When you are creating a new matrix
file you may want to use these options to reduce the disk
space requirements for large matrix files, or to increase the
speed of access for certain operations. There are four
settings you can control:
 How values are stored in the file
 Whether values are loaded into memory or accessed from disk
 Whether the values are stored in a compact or expanded format
 Whether values are stored in row or column order

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