The Intermodal Routing and Environmental Impact Analysis Tool (IREIAT) is meant to enable its target user group, infrastructure planners, to understand:
- Expected flows on the US intermodal freight network given demand, intermodal costs (both direct financial and other costs), and network capacities
- How cost, transit time, disruptions/resilience, and GHG emissions affect freight flows across the current and future intermodal network
The tool is meant to be a Python-based command line tool, so you should ensure that you have Python 3.11 installed on your machine, which can be downloaded here.
Additionally, you need to download R and install:
- cppRouting
- igraph
- arrow
Once you have Python and R installed you should be able to install the package
with pip install ireiat
. After which, you can just run ireiat
from a command-line!
Run ireiat --help
for CLI options or see the full documentation.
Please see how to contribute
The information, data, or work presented herein was funded in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy, under Award Number DE-AR0001784. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.