December 2014 – Xl-Optim

The next step for AequilibraE: True multi-threading

Posted 2014-12-302020-04-10 pedroPosted in AequilibraE, Python

When AequilibraE has launched a couple of weeks ago, it was already clear that using multiple CPUs would be a requirement for it in the near future. For software developed in Python, however, parallel computing is always a challenge due to the existence of the GIL, which prevents a single instance of Python of using […]

Introducing AequilibraE for QGIS

Posted 2014-12-162020-04-10 pedroPosted in AequilibraE, GIS, Python

Back in January 2003 when I started my career in transportation planning as an intern at Logit, my main tools as far as software went were MS Excel and TransCad (sometimes Maptitude). I would do all the modeling in Excel/VBA and use Transcad for assignment and visualization, and would always rely heavily on the visualization […]