The following list covers a large number of features of the product range as a whole. If you have any questions about any aspect or perhaps we don't touch on an area that you are interested in, please get in touch.
Model Size & Performance
- Allows both LHD and RHD in Metric, US or UK units
- Ability to simulate area wide networks
- 1,000,000 intersections
- 32,000 zones and/or carparks
- 256 different road categories to simulate existing road conditions ranging from local residential traffic to high volume traffic along freeways
- 128 customisable vehicle types ranging from family sedans to passenger trains
- 32 traffic lanes per direction
- 1024 different public transport routes
- 64 different restrictions by height, weight, width and vehicle type
- 64 different driver profiles
- Real time changes are reflected immediately on screen
- Simulate while editing
- Distributed processing
- Real time visualisation
Freeways
- On and off ramps
- Complex weaving areas
- Fast lane merge
- Special use lanes
- Lane specific speed limits
- Driver behaviour controls
- Dynamic and scheduled HOT
- Hard and soft barrier HOV lanes
- Variable speed limits (VSL)
- Ramp metering
- Incidents and breakdowns
- Lane specific toll options
- Fully rendered 3D toll plaza graphics
- Toll reporting
- Up to 32 tolled lanes
- Electronic toll collection
- Stop and Pay
- EZPass
- High occupancy tolling
- Hard and soft barrier HOV lanes
Urban Networks
- Roundabouts, priority and signalized intersections
- Model complex intersections of any shape
- Grade and at-grade separated intersections, diamond interchange, yellow box
- Phase based traffic signals
- Fixed / variable cycle lengths
- Fully actuated demand responsive signal plans (NEMA/170)
- One click fixed time plan library
- Integrated pedestrian crossings
- Turn on red
- Single click roundabout creation
- Up to 16 connected arms to each intersection
- Up to 32 signalised phases per intersection
- Connection to external hardware controllers
- Priority T and All way stop
- Complex weaving areas
- Fixed time or actuated signals
- Grade separated intersections
- Continuous Green T
- Diverging Diamond
- 2 way left turn
- Suicide lanes
- Continuous flow intersections
- Public transport priority
- Fully actuated dual ring controllers
- Pedestrian priority
- Work zones
- Traffic calming
- Car parks
- Kerbside car parking
- Incidents and breakdowns
- UTC systems SCOOT, SCATS, VS+
Traffic Assignment & Route Choice
- All Or Nothing assignment
- Stochastic assignment
- Dynamic assignment
- Time based driver learning - preferred route assignment
- Control route choice by driver type
- Fixed turning penalties, link and category cost factors
- Waypoint strategic route choice
- Fixed route control
- Walk times to/from carparks
- Vehicle type specific barred turning movement and link/lane closures
- Physical constrains effecting route choice i.e. low bridge, weight limit, narrow lanes
- Globally accepted Generalised Cost Equation algorithms
Public Transport
- Unlimited PT vehicles
- PT routes and stopping points
- Timetables, stopping schedules and layovers
- Passenger boarding / alighting rates
- Specific dwell times
- Public transport priority schemes
- Bus, coach and minibus
- LRT and fixed rail
- Train services
- Ferry / port operations
- Airport airside operations
ITS
- Variable speed limits (VSL)
- High occupancy tolling (HOT)
- Vehicle actuated signals
- Car park spaces signage
- Route choice updates
- Roadside message signs
- Incident response
- HOV lanes
- Dynamic lane control
- Induction loop detectors covering any range of travel lanes
Pedestrians
- Unlimited pedestrian types
- Time varying demand
- Easy to use space definitions
- No need for expensive OD data
- Signalised pedestrian crossings
- Shared space behaviour
- Variable compliance behaviour
- Fully animated 3D pedestrians
- Urban streetscape
- Friction effect on traffic flow
- Signalised crossings
- Call on demand pedestrian phases
- Pedestrian priority
- Shared spaces
- Public transport terminals
- Kerbside drop off / pick up
- Groups and parent / child combinations
Reports & Analysis
- Link based: speed, flow, density, delay, queuing, stop time, relative time delay, LOS and MOE etc.
- Intersection based: queuing, blocking, turning delay, turning count, LOS and MOE etc.
- Zone: release demand, blocking, journey time distributions etc.
- Loop: speed, flow, gap, occ, raising and falling edges, point data, by vehicle type, time aggregated etc.
- Composite: roundabout turning movements, select link analysis, path usage, bus info, economic info, route choice costs etc.
- Lane utilisation
- Passenger wait times
- Over saturation of services
- Occupancy values
- Actual journey times vs. expected
- Accident analysis using Surrogate Safety Assessment Model (SSAM)
- 50th and 95th percentile queue lengths
- Max, 50th and 95th percentile signal discharge queue lengths
- Stops per link/lane including partial stops based on TRANSYT criteria or similar
- Turning movement "capacity" metrics
- Total Green/Red time provided per Analyser interval
- Node custom (LOS etc.) per turning movement
- On Ramp count and flow and full range of statistics for on ramp feeder links
- Queue measurements over multiple Links
- Turn delays over multiple approach links
- Release rates and zone blocking reports
- HOT and VSL decision making
- Export reports in CSV format for easy post analysis
- Data collection start and end times can be defined to avoid warm up/cool down periods.
OD Estimation
- Revolutionary OD Matrix estimation tool
- Interact directly with the OD estimation process "as it runs", avoiding the need for long process times
- Apply confidence weight to control quality of data and influence on OD estimation process
- Standard forms of observed traffic count data including link counts, turning counts, cordon inbound/outbound counts, and prior or pattern matrices
- Time varying OD matrices in a single session
- Amend existing travel demand data to incorporate new traffic counts or changes in trip generation.
- Provides constant feedback on the "goodness of fit" between simulated and observed values using industry standard approaches
- View relationships between count data and vehicle route choice
Presentation & Graphics
- 2D/3D display
- Fully rendered graphic display of all aspects of simulation
- Video recording allows full playback on any PC
- Video storyboarding and flythrough
- Ability to view from any angle, including the drivers point of view as they progress through the network
- Includes full environmental effects i.e. sun, rain or snow
- Integrated with Google SketchUp
- Integrated with Autodesk 3ds Max Design Civil View
- Includes detailed road surfacing, line editing, true texturing
- 3D models can be textured, scaled, edited and have materials and lighting effects applied to them
- High speed rendering of 3D models
- Includes over 2000 ready-to-use life-like 3D models
- Ability to use aerial photograph as backgrounds
- Import CAD data overlays and 3D terrain mapping
- Users can annotate the network and map driven points of interest
- Overlay support for MrSID, JPEG2000, GeoTIFF, ECW, DXF, SHP, MIF/MID, DGN and TIGER/Line
Connectivity & Compliance
- Work with data from various sources including Emme/2, Mapinfo, ESRI, Synchro, Corsim, Cube/TP+/Viper, flat ASCII, and CSV
- UTC connection for SCATS, SCOOT, VS+
- GIS connections to ESRI, Mapinfo
- Autodesk product integration
- Google 3D warehouse and SketchUp integration
- In line with HCM2000, AUSTROADS & DMRB guidelines
Development SDK
- Create custom ITS solutions
- Customise driver behaviour
- Actuated signal control
- Ramp metering control logic
- Connection to hardware controllers
- Connect to 3rd party software
- Integration into Traffic Control Centres
- 1000 SDK functions including UI and OpenGL customisations
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