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Generate and modify transport demand scenarios via a Python API.
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README.md

Population Activity Modeller
PAM is a python library for population activity sequence modelling. Example use cases:
- Read an existing population then write to a new format.
- Modify an existing population, for example to model activity locations.
- Create your own activity-based model.
PAM supports common travel and activity formats, including MATSim.
Activity Sequences?
Population activity sequences (sometimes called activity plans) are used to model the activities (where and when people are at home, work, education and so on) and associated travel of a population:

Activity sequences are used by transport planners to model travel demand, but can also be used in other domains, such as for virus transmission or energy use modelling.
Brief History
PAM was originally built and shared to rapidly modify existing activity models to respond to pandemic lock-down scenarios.

This functionality used a read-modify-write pattern. Where modifications are made by applying policies. Example policies might be (a) infected persons quarantine at home, (b) only critical workers travel to work, and (c) everyone shops locally.

Features
Activity Modelling
In addition to the original read-modify-write pattern and functionality, PAM has modules for:
- location modelling
- discretionary activity modelling
- mode choice modelling
- facility sampling
- vehicle ownership
More generally the core PAM data structure and modules can be used as a library to support your own use cases, including building your own activity-based model.
MATSim
PAM fully supports the MATSim population/plans format. This includes vehicles, unselected plans, leg routes and leg attributes. A core use case of PAM is to read-modify-write experienced plans from MATSim. This can allow new MATSim scenarios to be "warm started" from existing scenarios, significantly reducing MATSim compute time.
Documentation
For more detailed instructions, see our documentation.
Installation
To install PAM, we recommend using the mamba package manager:
As a user
shell
mamba create -n pam -c conda-forge -c city-modelling-lab cml-pam
mamba activate pam
<!--- --8<-- [end:docs-install-user] -->
As a developer
shell
git clone git@github.com:arup-group/pam.git
cd pam
mamba create -n pam -c conda-forge -c city-modelling-lab --file requirements/base.txt --file requirements/dev.txt
mamba activate pam
pip install --no-deps -e .
<!--- --8<-- [end:docs-install-dev] -->
Installing with pip
Installing directly with pip as a user (pip install cml-pam) or as a developer (pip install -e '.[dev]') is also possible, but you will need the libgdal & libspatialindex geospatial non-python libraries pre-installed.
For more detailed instructions, see our documentation.
Contributing
There are many ways to make both technical and non-technical contributions to PAM. Before making contributions to the PAM source code, see our contribution guidelines and follow the development install instructions.
If you are using pip to install PAM instead of the recommended mamba, you can install the optional test and documentation libraries using the dev option, i.e., pip install -e '.[dev]'
If you plan to make changes to the code then please make regular use of the following tools to verify the codebase while you work:
pre-commit: runpre-commit installin your command line to load inbuilt checks that will run every time you commit your changes. The checks are: 1. check no large files have been staged, 2. lint python files for major errors, 3. format python files to conform with the pep8 standard. You can also run these checks yourself at any time to ensure staged changes are clean by simple callingpre-commit.pytest- run the unit test suite, check test coverage, and test that the example notebooks successfully run.pytest -p memray -m "high_mem" --no-cov(not available on Windows) - after installing memray (mamba install memray pytest-memray), test that memory and time performance does not exceed benchmarks.
For more information, see our documentation.
Building the documentation
If you are unable to access the online documentation, you can build the documentation locally. First, install a development environment of PAM, then deploy the documentation using mike:
mike deploy 0.2
mike serve
Then you can view the documentation in a browser at http://localhost:8000/.
Credits
This package was created with Cookiecutter and the arup-group/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.
Owner
- Name: Arup
- Login: arup-group
- Kind: organization
- Email: media@arup.com
- Website: https://www.arup.com/
- Repositories: 168
- Profile: https://github.com/arup-group
We Shape a Better World
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PAM: Population Activity Modeller
Authors
Arup, City Modelling Lab
Arup, City Modelling Lab
Arup, City Modelling Lab
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given-names: Fred
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1079-0081"
- family-names: Chatziioannou
given-names: Theodore
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given-names: Bryn
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- family-names: Kozlowska
given-names: Kasia
- family-names: Fitzmaurice
given-names: Michael
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10948231
message: If you use this software, please cite our article in the
Journal of Open Source Software.
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given-names: Kasia
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date-published: 2024-04-23
doi: 10.21105/joss.06097
issn: 2475-9066
issue: 96
journal: Journal of Open Source Software
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title: "PAM: Population Activity Modeller"
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volume: 9
title: "PAM: Population Activity Modeller"
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pypi.org: cml-pam
The Population activity Modeller (PAM) is a python API for activity sequence modelling.
- Documentation: https://cml-pam.readthedocs.io/
- License: MIT
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Latest release: 0.3.2
published almost 2 years ago
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