This tutorial was put together by the UrbanSim project team in response to various requests for a sample application that would allow quickly installing UrbanSim, running an application, and examining the data, and has been tested by several users.
A special thanks is in order to Bud Reiff, Bob Denouden and others at the Lane Council of Governments for their generosity in sharing the data we use in this tutorial. This research has been funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (IIS-0534094 and IIS-0705898), and in part by a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (R831837). We'd like to thank several users as well for their financial support of the development of UrbanSim and OPUS.