Traffic News
ITS Dailynews Article, Stockholm, Sept 24
PTV announces double update
Transport software specialists PTV have made significant updates to two of their well-known products: VISSIM, which looks at traffic flow in micro-simulation situations; and VISUM, which handles the same task in the macro field - across an entire city, for example.
VISSIM, which is used to model traffic flows at specific locations such as intersections, has been around for 25 years. This year, for the first time, the technology is being used also to simulate pedestrian flows and how they interact with traffic. "Most competitors have software that only handles pedestrian simulation," said Dr. Klaus Nökel, PTV's vice president, traffic software and software transport planning. "There is only one other company that mixes both pedestrians and vehicles ... and we believe our interaction is superior." More...
VISUM, meanwhile, has been updated by adding emission modelling, conforming to the latest European emission modelling standards. "We're linking this into the traffic model to produce an accurate model of traffic emissions in the travel network." With the new software, planners could see how changes to traffic light timings or other measures could affect not only traffic flows but emissions at intersections or other critical points. More...
Release of VISSIM 5.20 in September 2009
We are pleased to introduce you the release of VISSIM 5.20 with helpful functions and amendments. It is availabe since September 2009.
Please read more about the highlights and improvements here.
You can never start too early to become a traffic engineer
The Engineering Education Scheme provided by the Royal Academy of Engineering takes place annually from October to April. It teams up engineering companies with schools from around the North East region of England to undertake real planning and design challenges faced by engineers in the working world. Jacobs Consultancy (Newcastle), one of the world's largest users of the PTV Vision software suite, was teamed with St Anthony´s High School Sunderland. The brief given to the all-girl team was based on a real traffic project which involved the design of a new junction close to the girls' school.
Enjoy major public events - safely and securely!
Concepts for effectively handling emergency situations are essential to cope with the increasing number of people attending major public events and a changing climate with increased severe weather. Visitor security is just as important a matter for the festival organizers as the performing artists. The past several weeks have clearly shown that they also have to be prepared to cope with extremely bad weather, like thunderstorms. In these emergency situations it is important to know how to safely guide the fans from the stage area to the exits.
Read more...
Newsletter - PTV Vision news
The newsletter regularly informs you of current releases, planned additional functionalities, interesting applications, upcoming events and special offers regarding PTV Vision. Subscribe here to our free newsletter.
