Activity-Based Travel Model Improvement Plan and Implementation Service
Overview
Fit Score
Settle Intelligence
Settle helps teams find, evaluate, and respond to public RFPs. We continuously surface new opportunities, score them against your company strengths, and draft proposal responses so you can focus on the work that wins business.
SUMMARY
KEY REQUIREMENTS
BUDGET
VerifiedCONTRACT DURATION
TIMELINE
RFP Issued: March 19, 2026
Questions on RFP accepted through BidNet until: March 25, 2026 4pm
Responses to Questions Issued through BidNet: March 26, 2026
Proposals due to SEMCOG: April 6, 2026 4pm
Notification of Interview Selection: April 8, 2026
Interviews: April 9th-10th, 2026
Inform vendors of selection status: April 13th, 2026
Executive Committee Approval: April 24th, 2026
Contract Executed and Notice to Proceed: After MDOT approval
Project kickoff: After MDOT approval
Complete Work and implementation: Not later than December 31st, 2027
QUESTION DEADLINE
Issuing Agency
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
Organization overview and procurement intelligence available on paid plans.
DESCRIPTION
The government authority in Detroit, Michigan seeks a qualified vendor to develop a comprehensive Activity-Based Travel Model Improvement Plan and to modernize, re-estimate, calibrate, validate, and fully implement the next-generation Activity-Based Travel Demand Model (ActSim 2.0). The selected consultant will facilitate structured engagement with agency staff, local stakeholders, and peer Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to identify system gaps, data requirements, and viable approaches for upgrading the existing model.
Key tasks include developing essential datasets for resident model estimation, assembling calibration and validation targets using agency-provided travel surveys and observational data, and implementing recent ActivitySim enhancements. The vendor will estimate and calibrate passenger travel models utilizing the latest household survey and observational datasets.
Additional tasks involve calibrating both long-haul and short-haul commercial vehicle travel models based on recent data, modernizing the modeling platform via TransCAD, and ensuring high-quality multimodal assignment calibration and validation. The contract also calls for comprehensive systemwide validation and scenario-based sensitivity and reasonableness testing on the full regional travel model.
Source attribution
This Settle analysis is based on the issuing organization’s public RFP listing.