Traffic News
Students from the Institution of Highways and Transportation visit PTV
In the framework of the long term cooperation between PTV, the University of Newcastle and CIHT (The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation), a group of international students has visited PTV in May 2010. The target of the field trip was the integration of the University students with the transport industry offering them the possibility to acquire knowledge of best practice in transport in an European context. Read more.
HBEFA Emission Calculation in VISUM
Improved Environmental Assessments: Emission Calculation and Traffic Count Data Management
Prediction of road traffic emissions and fuel consumption is becoming increasingly important for evaluation of environmental policies and infrastructural developments. Since February 2010, the new HBEFA (Handbook emission factors for road transport) is available. Meet the ever more stringent legislation for traffic in cities using our new module for your planning.
PTV America has helped with Olympic Crowd Control
Downtown Vancouver Transportation and Emergency Management System (DVTEMS):
The City of Vancouver hosts a multitude of special events, including large local events such as the Annual Celebration of Lights and the Vancouver Sun Run, recurring local events like professional sporting events and concerts, and global events such as the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In preparation for these events, the City continually looks to optimize the planning and security for its patrons through the development of additional tools and encouragement of more efficient and effective communication between the stakeholders involved in these events.
The City looked to develop a tool to serve as a decision support system for pedestrian and transportation management decisions under both normal and event traffic conditions.
With Ms. Karen Giese as Project Manager, PTV America developed the Downtown Vancouver Transportation and Emergency Management System (DVTEMS) sought to aid in the pre-planning evaluation of special events and potential associated emergency situations.
See below the PTV O-Zone story, a video broadcasted by KGW News in Portland, Oregon.
To get more information on this project, you may contact Karen directly.
Karen Giese is a Project Manager for PTV America, Inc., joining the team in 2006. She has more than ten years of multi-modal transportation planning and engineering experience. Her primary responsibilities include overseeing delivery of PTV Vision software to North American clients, PTV Vision support and training, managing projects, and business development. Karen Giese served as Project Manager for PTV America, Inc., for their work with the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee. In this role, she was responsible for the overall project, worked with the technical development team, assisted in the development of certain methodologies incorporated into the final model, and worked with a large stakeholder group to incorporate objectives and needs of each unique participating organization into the final deliverable product.
2012 European Championships in Lviv 2012 : Kick-off for a sustainable transportation network
Lviv, one of the host cities during the UEFA Euro 2012 in Ukraine, wants to develop an efficient and eco-friendly traffic and transportation system with the support from - amongst others - PTV AG: The aim is to get the necessary infrastructure to cope with the hundreds of thousands of fans expected to flock to the event.
Read more in our customer magazine about this project.
Emission model EnViVer now available as offline-module
The emission model EnViVer for VISSIM has been further developped by TNO Netherlands and is now available in Version 3 containing a dispersion model. With VISSIM Version 5.20 comes along the restructuring of the licence-model for EnViVer. For more information, also on prices, please address to info.vision@ptv.de.
Release of VISSIM 5.20
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.
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...
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.
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