Corridor-level demand and modal shift analysis run in-house — before any infrastructure decision is made. Agent-based simulation of the Pink Line BRT corridor, in partnership with Replan and Netivei Ayalon.
A joint project with Replan and Netivei Ayalon: bringing corridor-level agent-based simulation in-house, so planners can stress-test BRT scenarios on the Pink Line corridor before committing to infrastructure.
“A BRT decision reshapes a corridor for decades. Simulating it first — in-house, in days — is the cheapest insurance a planning agency can buy.”
Bus Rapid Transit promises light-rail performance at a fraction of the cost — but only if the corridor design actually pulls drivers out of their cars. Together with Replan and Netivei Ayalon, we run agent-based simulations of the Pink Line BRT corridor to answer that question before a single lane is repainted.
Not a black-box regional forecast — a focused, high-resolution view of one corridor: demand, boardings, travel times, station by station.
Every simulated traveler chooses between car, bus and BRT. The output is the number that matters: how many drivers actually switch.
The analysis runs inside the organization — scenarios are iterated in days, not procured in months, before any infrastructure decision is made.
The Pink Line corridor is modeled in Replan's simulation platform — network, stations, dedicated lanes and signal priority — alongside a calibrated baseline of today's traffic.
A synthetic population of agents, each with its own daily activity schedule, travels through the corridor. Every agent chooses its mode and route — private car, bus or BRT — reacting to travel times, service frequency and congestion.
Scenarios are compared head-to-head against the baseline: corridor-level demand, boarding profiles, travel-time savings, and the modal shift from private cars to the new BRT service.
Results arrive in days, not months — run in-house, so the corridor design can be iterated and refined before any infrastructure decision is locked in.
Placeholder visualization — the full corridor analysis is available on request.
The analysis runs on Replan's cloud simulation platform — purpose-built for testing transit scenarios with agent-based modeling. The partnership brings a capability that used to require months-long consulting studies directly into the planning organization.
Visit replan.cityA BRT corridor is a decades-long commitment of road space, budget and political capital. Getting the demand and modal-shift picture before the design is locked means the infrastructure that gets built is the infrastructure the corridor actually needs.
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