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School

Scenario-School contains the information required to assign discrete school zones for students in GTAModel.

Students are broken up into three age-groups in GTAModel.

  1. Elementary - 0-13
  2. Highschool - 14-17
  3. PostSecondary - 18+
Tip

In GTAModel V4 input data is organized into the Scenario folders with the following structure, Scenario-Directory/RunYear/ScenarioName.

Contained Files

V4.0

  • BaseYearStudentLinkages-Elementry.csv
  • BaseYearStudentLinkages-Highschool.csv
  • BaseYearStudentLinkages-PostSecondary.csv
  • ElementaryStudentsByZone2011.csv
  • HighschoolStudentsByZone2011.csv
  • UniversityStudentsByZone2011.csv

V4.1+

  • ElementaryStudents.csv (V4.1 only)
  • ElementaryStudentsLinkages.csv
  • HighschoolStudents.csv (V4.1 only)
  • HighschoolStudentsLinkages.csv
  • PostSecondaryStudents.csv (V4.1 only)
  • PostSecondaryStudentsLinkages.csv

XStudents.csv

For the Students.csv files they contain a vector of two columns household TAZ, and the number of students living in that TAZ that belong to the age-group.

XStudentLinkages.csv

For the XStudentLinkages.csv files they contain a vector of three columns, household TAZ, school TAZ, and the number of students that live and go to schools in those TAZ.

Warning

If there is no linkages for a household TAZ that has students in the future that student will be assigned a school based on the average for the home zone's planning district.

Creating a New Scenario

Creating a new school scenario typically involves copying a scenario and altering the XLinkages.csv to apply some enrolment zone with a new school, or new population. If you add some new population to a zone that previously had no students make sure to add some new students to the corresponding Students.csv if you are using a GTAModel before 4.2.