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[[Category:5.0 User Interface & Running the Model]]

<p class="BodyParagraph">NERPM activity based model integrates DaySim within Cube environment. The following figure shows a screenshot of the Cube interface that is used to run and maintain the model.</p>

<h4 class="BodyParagraph" id="id-5.2RUNNINGTHEMODEL-FIGURE5-27NERPM-ABCUBEINTERFACE">FIGURE 5-27 NERPM-AB CUBE INTERFACE</h4>

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<p class="BodyParagraph">There are two ways of running the whole model:</p><ul><li>Select the scenario in ‘scenario manager’ and click on ‘Run’ button on the top left portion of the menu bar.</li><li>Right-click on the scenario manager and select ‘Edit/Run Scenario’ menu item. Go through all the scenario editor screens to verify inputs and click on the ‘Run’ button on the bottom right portion of the scenario editor.</li></ul><p class="BodyParagraph">The following is a list of some keys that the user may want to update:</p><ul><li>“Alternative Letter” (One digital letter such as A, B, C, etc)</li><li>“Alternative Year” (Two digial number such as 10, 15, 20, etc)</li><li>“Alternative Year Directory”, where Input and Output folders located</li><li>“ClusterNodes”, which could be equal or less than number of processors. Set this equal to number of processors to fully utilize computation power</li><li>If a scenario involved different park and ride or kiss and ride lots than base year (see \Master\{SCENARIO_DIR}\Input\DaySimInput\05_pnr\jax_p_rNodes.dat), user should create new Park and ride file and update key “ParkAndRide”</li><li>If a scenario is future scenario or involved different land use than base year, user should create new DaySim inputs and update following keys<ul><li>ParcelFile</li><li>HouseholdFile</li><li>PersonFile</li></ul></li></ul>

<h4 id="id-5.2RUNNINGTHEMODEL-FIGURE5-28MODELRUNINTERFACE">FIGURE 5-28 MODEL RUN INTERFACE</h4>

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<h4 id="id-5.2RUNNINGTHEMODEL-FIGURE5-29CUBESCENARIOEDITOR">FIGURE 5-29 CUBE SCENARIO EDITOR</h4>

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