Newsletter #12/09
TOPICS
- Integrated transportation system for Qatar
- Technological milestone: "Strategic Routing"
- Exact costs and emissions on steep hills
- Prominent executive named to Supervisory Board
- PTV supports "Gifts from the heart"
- Free training for unemployed engineers and urban planners
- Kean Lew Memorial Student Paper Prize
- Industry meetings and events
Integrated transportation system for Qatar
A country with a population of over one million people without public bus and rail transport? This is beyond our imagination, but is - still - reality in the desert state of Qatar. Both population and economy are growing fast there, and so too is the demand for public transport. The Urban Planning and Development Authority placed the order with PTV to develop the basis for an integrated transportation system from 2006 to 2008. This included not only the forecast of economic development and population growth, but also the design of a traffic model to estimate the effects of strategies and measures as well as the planning of transportation networks in road, public and rail transportation.
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Technological milestone: "Strategic Routing"
Good news for local residents: New routing procedures clear the way for alternative route recommendations without routing traffic through residential areas. The PTV AG transportation experts from Karlsruhe developed the trendsetting technology as part of the CVIS (Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Systems) research project.
Exact costs and emissions on steep hills
A truck driving up a steep hill produces more carbon emissions than a truck driving down a hill. For this reason, the route planning software map&guide professional now includes European altitude data. This means that the calculation results for costs and emissions are much more exact.
Prominent executive named to Supervisory Board
PTV had good news to report at its Annual General Meeting. With an order backlog at record high and a comprehensive market portfolio encompassing software and consulting services for optimised traffic and transportation, we are well positioned, even in times of economic crisis. Dr. Frank-Jürgen Weise, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Employment Agency, Nuremberg, was elected as Chairman of PTV's Supervisory Board.
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PTV supports "Gifts from the heart"
Since 1979, the team of humedica e.V. has been helping children around the globe who may be suffering or living in poverty. The Christmas campaign "Gifts from the heart" is an essential part of their aid programme. PTV supports the organisation with its route planning software map&guide. It enables humedica to improve the process of picking up the gift-filled boxes at the collection points and to plan cost-efficient routes.
Free training for unemployed engineers and urban planners
PTV America, Inc. offers eLearning for its software platform, VISSIM, at no cost to unemployed professionals in the transportation industry. The eLearning course teaches the basics of modelling and simulation using the VISSIM tool, a microsimulation package for traffic engineering and visualisation.
It is designed to assist job seekers in the transportation industry with advancing their skill set and maintaining professional certifications.
Kean Lew Memorial Student Paper Prize
The Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (CITE) Manitoba Section has changed the title of their Annual ITE Student Paper Competition to the "Kean Lew Memorial Student Paper Prize" in honour of Kean Lew, former Canadian Regional Manager with PTV America before his death in April, 2009. The purpose of the annual award is to encourage university students studying transportation to develop their technical writing skills, and the winner receives a cash prize in addition to attendance at the CITE Annual Conference.
