Re: What are the cutting edge tools and models of today?: Hey Jim,
AequilibraE has indeed make great strides, and we have recently added transit assignment and will add route choice with path overlaps in the next month or so.
I am also on teh Polaris development team, and can talk a bit about it. It is pretty sophisticated model system, which micro-simulates agents throughout the demand and assignment portions of the model, including a pretty good DTA… https://tmip.zephyrtransport.org/scripts/wa-ZEPHYRTRANS.exe?A2=TMIP%3B39bb3de9.2406&utm_source=dlvr.it #tmip