Strategic Partnership Projects

Funds-In Agreement No. FIA-21-17442

Modification No. 2

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Contractor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC

Operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

ponsor: Port of Seattle

eriod of Performance: 5/11/21 through 12/31/23

This modification adds 12 months to the period of performance and

adds $200,000 to the value of the agreement.

xcept as stated herein, all terms and conditions of the Funds-In Agreement shall remain in full force

and effect without change. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the subject Agreement and

this Modification, the provisions of this Modification shall take precedence.

lock 2, Estimated Performance Period is amended to reflect a new completion date of 12/31/23.

lock 3, Financial is hereby amended as follows:

ost Estimate Modification No. 2 $200,000.00

DOE Administrative Charge $0.00

TOTAL Modification No. 2 $200,000.00

rior Cost Estimate: $350,000.00

Prior DOE Administrative Charge $00.00

Tot

al Cost to Sponsor $550,000.00

lock 6, Agreement Terms and Conditions is modified to reflect the addition of “Appendix A –

Statement of Work for Modification 2 to Funds-In Agreement No. FIA-21-17442”

“

Appendix A – Statement of Work for Modification 2 to Funds-In Agreement No. FIA-21-17442” is

hereby added to the Agreement.

“

Appendix C-1 – Rights in Technical Data for Modification 2 to Funds-In Agreement No. FIA-21-

17442” is hereby added to the Agreement solely for the work under this Modification 2.

The par

ties have indicated their acceptance of this Modification between Sponsor and Contractor by

signature below.

Accepted:

Sponsor

Contractor

By:

Name:

Name: Anne Miller

Title:

Title: Director, Technology Transfer

Date:

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Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC

manager and operator of the

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Strategic Partnership Projects

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Appendix A for Modification No. 2 – Statement of Work

Notice: By signing this Agreement, the Sponsor acknowledges in advance that its entity name and the title and

non-proprietary description of the project are available for public release by the Contractor without further notice.

I. Project Title: Passenger mode choice model and traffic microsimulation model integration

II. Non-Proprietary Description of Project:

Integrate the passenger mode choice model that National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

previously created for the Port with the Port’s existing traffic microsimulation model.

III. Parties to this agreement:

Contractor: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, operator of the National Renewable Energy

Laboratory under Prime Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 for the U.S. Department

of Energy (DOE). Contractor has a facility at 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden,

CO 80401.

Sponsor: Port of Seattle (Port). Sponsor has a facility at 2711 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA

98121.

IV. Background:

The Ground Transportation Access Plan (GTAP) is SEA Airport’s (SEA’s) programmatic planning

initiative that seeks to balance and address policy challenges related to ground transportation at

SEA, namely (a) greenhouse gas emission reduction, (b) congestion reduction, (c) ground

transportation revenues, (d) customer choice and (e) equity. These policy priorities were formally

adopted by Commission in June 2019 (Resolution 3759).

To accurately predict and measure the potential effects of potential policies and initiatives on

passenger mode choice, SEA worked with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to

develop a survey-based Mode Choice Simulator model (MCS). This model was completed in 2022.

However, the MCS is not currently able to predict changes in demand on airport access roads or

congestion on SEA roadways. Doing so requires integrating the MCS with SEA’s existing traffic

microsimulation model. Integration of these tools will allow for an iterative process to determine the

impact of changes in traffic congestion resulting from predicted mode shift and the effect of this

congestion on travel time and resulting adjustments to predicted mode shift. This will enable a more

accurate assessment of potential mode shift from various policy initiatives and resulting evaluation

of the impacts on GHG emissions, equity, revenue, and curbside traffic congestion.

V. Statement of Work - Task Descriptions, Deliverables, and Estimated Completion Dates:

a. Task Descriptions

The primary goal of this task is to build a tool that allows for seamless, automated

communication between the MCS and the traffic microsimulation model. This connection, that

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NREL describes as a “master function”, will allow the MCS to automatically launch traffic

simulations based on output parameters generated by the MCS.

To this end, the NREL team will complete the following tasks:

Task 1. Data Preparation. The NREL team will communicate with SEA on the geographic

extent of the microsimulation model and the data sources needed for enabling the

master function. Besides the existing microsimulation model and the passenger

demand profile, the NREL team will work with Port staff to estimate traffic volume

entering the simulation area on major access roads, background traffic demand

(e.g., recirculating traffic, employee commuting, etc.), bypassing traffic volume on

major access roads, and the distribution of passenger origins and destinations

inside the airport (e.g., terminals, curb segments, etc.). The NREL team will seek

other open sources (such as TomTom API) for any inputs that are not currently

available to the Port staff.

Task 2. Script an interface with the Port’s microsimulation model in Python. The NREL

team will build the interface for the traffic microsimulation models provided by the

Port so the functions and parameters of the traffic microsimulation set within the

simulation software can be manipulated via a Python script. The interface will be

designed with sufficient flexibility that it could be adapted to work with different

VISSIM models in the same geographic simulation area in the future.

Task 3. Master Function. The NREL team will create a master function that digests the

output of the MCS to feed it into and automatically launch the traffic

microsimulation model. This master function will use the outputs of the mode

choice simulator and change the simulation configuration automatically to reflect

the influence of mode choice on traffic congestion.

Task 4. Sensitivity Analyses. The NREL team will use the master function to run a series of

VISSIM simulations under different demand levels to test the reliability of the

simulation model with increasing travel demand.

Task 5. Congestion Evaluation. The NREL team will create an evaluation function to

summarize the traffic microsimulation outputs automatically for all model runs. The

evaluation function will include travel time for different passenger cohorts, which

will feed into the mode choice simulator. Any traffic delays detected relative to a

base scenario will be documented in the existing evaluation framework in the

MCS.

Task 6. User Interface. The NREL team will develop a user interface for running traffic

microsimulation models with new MCS outputs. This interface will allow Port staff

without any programming experience to run the integrated tool MCS –

microsimulation tool.

Task 7. Other work at the direction of the partner, consistent with the scope and subject to

the availability of funding.

b. Deliverables and Estimated Completion Dates

Task

Deliverable

Schedule from

modification

effective date

1. Data preparation

List of data from Port

End of Month 2

2. Script interface

a) Model scripts

b) Demonstrate model to SEA staff

End of Month 4

3. Master function

a) Model methodology memo

b) Demonstrate model to SEA staff

End of Month 6

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4. Sensitivity analyses

Brief memo summarizing the

sensitivity analyses

End of Month 7

5. Congestion

evaluation

Brief memo summarizing results

End of Month 8

6. User interface

Model dashboard

End of Month

VI. Schedule:

The anticipated period of performance for this work is 12 months.

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Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC,

manager and operator of the

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Strategic Partnership Projects

Funds-In Agreement—FIA-21-17442-2

Appendix C-1 – Rights in Technical Data for Modification 2

(Alternative I - unlimited rights/nonproprietary - software)

1. The following definitions shall be used.

A. "Generated Information" means information produced in the performance of this Agreement or

any Contractor’s subcontract under this Agreement.

B. "Proprietary Information" means information which is developed at private expense, is marked

as Proprietary Information, and embodies (1) trade secrets or (2) commercial or financial

information which is privileged or confidential under the Freedom of information Act (5 USC §

552 (b)(4)).

C. "Unlimited Rights" means the right to use, disclose, reproduce, prepare derivative works,

distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, in any manner and for

any purpose, and to have or permit others to do so.

D. “Computer Software” means (i) computer programs that comprise a series of instructions, rules,

routines, or statements, regardless of the media in which recorded, that allow or cause a

computer to perform a specific operation or series of operations; and (ii) recorded information

comprising source code listings, design details, algorithms, processes, flow charts, formulas,

and related material that would enable the computer program to be produced, created, or

compiled.

2. For work performed at the DOE facility, the Sponsor agrees to furnish to the Contractor or leave at

the facility that information, if any, which is (1) essential to the performance of work by the

Contractor personnel or (2) necessary for the health and safety of such personnel in the

performance of the work. Any information furnished to the Contractor shall be deemed to have been

delivered with Unlimited Rights unless marked as Proprietary Information. The Sponsor agrees that

it has the sole responsibility for appropriately identifying and marking all documents provided

containing Proprietary Information

3. The Sponsor, Contractor, and the Government shall have Unlimited Rights in all Generated

Information, except for information which is disclosed in a Subject Invention disclosure being

considered for patent protection.

4. The Government and Contractor agree not to disclose properly marked Proprietary Information

without written approval of the Sponsor, except to Government employees who are subject to the

statutory provisions against disclosure of confidential information set forth in the Trade Secrets Act

(18 USC § 1905).

5. The Sponsor is solely responsible for the removal of all of its Proprietary Information from the facility

by or before termination of this Agreement. The Sponsor may request the Contractor to return or

destroy all of the Sponsor’s Proprietary Information subject to paragraph (2) above. The

Government and Contractor shall have Unlimited Rights in any information which is not removed

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from the facility by termination of this Agreement. The Government and Contractor shall have

Unlimited Rights in any Proprietary Information which is incorporated into the facility or equipment

under this Agreement to such extent that the facility or equipment is not restored to the condition

existing prior to such incorporation.

6. The Sponsor agrees that the Contractor will provide to the Department of Energy a nonproprietary

description of the work performed under this Agreement.

7. COPYRIGHT: The Parties may assert Copyright in any of their Generated Information. Subject to

the other provisions of this clause including Computer Software generated by the Contractor below,

and to the extent copyright is asserted, the Government reserves for itself and others acting in its

behalf, a paid-up, world-wide, irrevocable, non-exclusive license for Governmental purposes to

publish, distribute, translate, duplicate, exhibit, prepare derivative works, and perform any such

copyrighted works.

For Computer Software generated by the Contractor under this agreement, the Contractor grants to

the Sponsor a royalty-free, nontransferable, non-exclusive, irrevocable worldwide copyright license

for its own use.

When the Contractor asserts copyright in its Computer Software developed under this Agreement,

the Government has for itself and others acting on its behalf, a royalty-free, nontransferable,

nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, and

perform publicly and display publicly, by or on behalf of the Government (narrow-license). After the

Contractor abandons or no longer commercializes the Copyrighted Computer Software, the

Government has for itself and others acting on its behalf, a royalty-free, nontransferable,

nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works,

distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, by or on behalf of the

Government (broad-license).

A separate copyright license may be necessary in Contractor Computer Software developed outside

of this Agreement and used to perform the work in this Agreement, such as creating derivative

works.

8. The terms and conditions of this Clause shall survive the Agreement, in the event that the

Agreement is terminated before completion of the Statement of Work.