---
id: engines/urbansim
about:
  label: UrbanSim
  description: >-
    Models location choice, development and urban growth, with transport-model
    integration.
tool:
  form: Urban modeling platform
  group: Housing and urban form
  audiences:
    - government
    - research
    - corporate
  homepage: 'https://cloud.urbansim.com/docs/general/documentation/urbansim.html'
domains:
  - places
relations:
  - predicate: answers
    target: questions/housing-and-land-use
provenance:
  origin: survey
  sources:
    - title: 'UrbanSim: model documentation'
      url: 'https://cloud.urbansim.com/docs/general/documentation/urbansim.html'
  reviewed: 2026-09
  reviewed_by: 'survey draft, not yet rechecked'
  status: draft
---
A research-derived engine for regional land-use scenarios.

Urban modeling platform. Listed in the survey under "Housing and urban form". Audiences named there: government, research, corporate.