@Transportist I really enjoyed reading this and there is a lot of truth in what you say. When you argue for small incremental moves, how exactly would you achieve that? Or are you calling for a whole rethink of the modeling process (4 step/ABM)? If we are to bring in visioning...how do we quantify it? Or I am totally off base in trying to think of this within the traditional paradigms? Thanks for writing this.
@Transportist and you are right about computational irreducibility being ignored. Even NCHRP 08-110 (https://nap.nationalacademies.org/download/25637#), a very good report otherwise, does not mention it. I wonder if its due to the lack of budget to do so? TMIP-EMAT can potentially be a tool to evaluate multiple future scenarios and can take a bite at the computational irreducibility question?
