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The Impact of Closing Streets for
a Parade
• We’re going to do a quick analysis of the i
mpact of closing down some strees in down
town Flintbury for a parade.
• We’ll use the network, shortest path, and m
atrix capabilities of TransCAD to compare t
he person-hours spent driving in Flintbury u
nder normal conditions with the person-hou
rs spent driving with the parade route closed.
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 Stage 1: Preparing Inputs
• Open practice_1.map
• Clear a Scaled-Symbol Theme

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 View the Data Associated with
the Street Layer

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 Show the Street Node Layer

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View the Data
Included in the
Node Layer

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 Select the Node Centroids

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Open the Origin-Destination Flow
Matrix

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 ID of destination node
ID of origin node

Flow from origin 11672 to

destination 44202
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 Create a Network

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Stage 2: Generating Shortest Paths
• Calculate the Typical Travel Times Between Zones

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 Disable Links in a Network

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Calculate Travel Time Between
Zones During the Parade

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 Combine Several Matrices into
One Matrix File

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 Change the Labels

Zone ID

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Sort a Matrix View

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 Add a Matrix to a Matrix File

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 Calculate the Extra Travel for
Each Zone Pair

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 Extra person-hours
of travel

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Calculate the Total Extra Person-
Hours Traveled in Flintbury

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