Quadstone Paramics

Connell Wagner (CW) was recently commissioned to undertake the preliminary design for the Cohen Street Extension and Bus Priority Scheme through Belconnen Town Centre (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory). The scheme will replace the existing bus interchange and will increase public transport permeability through the town centre.

As part of this commission CW developed a Paramics Microsimulation model of the proposed scheme to be used as a design optimisation tool. This scheme, in various forms, had previously been assessed by a number of consultants using single intersection analysis software. Not surprisingly, no real issues had been highlighted. CW however, decided to use Paramics in this situation as it allowed the scheme to be assessed in its entirety, considering general traffic, public transport and pedestrian impacts alike.

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