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infrastructure, one can say that the Asian market is ready for traffic management centres. However, it is still difficult to find the customers who are willing to invest in these complex projects,“ says Thomas Schwerdtfeger. “PTV does not supply the systems, which also involves major spending on hardware. We only supply the software solutions for these types of projects. This provides us with a major advantage: we can use reliable standard technology, which can be quite quickly and easily implemented and adjusted to the different regions“. Of particular interest to Asian markets: the simulation of pedestrian and cyclist activity The Asian market is challenging. The strategy of PTV‘s transportation planning experts is therefore to continuously develop software solutions which meet each market’s special requirements. With VISSIM it is possible to simulate pedestrian flows, meeting the needs of Chinese customers (and of course not only Chinese customers). Additionally, cyclist activity can be modelled realis- tically. This is an important factor for a city like Beijing where the bicycle is a favourite mode of transport. There are about 8 or 9 million bicycles in this mega city. The cyclists have their own acceleration rate. They can stop at traffic lights beside or behind each other, they can use bicycle lanes or the street. The system simulates all these situations, including the interaction between pedestrians, cars and buses. Excellent career prospects The universities in China have also recognised the mood of the times: as part of a Public-Private Partnership project traffic engineers and planners of the Tongji University in Shanghai can attend PTV Vision training courses to learn more about traffic planning with the help of the latest PTV Vision software version. PTV and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have signed a cooperation agreement. The university’s qualification programme now even goes a step further. In addition to the software training classes as well as transportation planning and traffic planning theory taught by guest lecturer Gerd Stuck on behalf of PTV, the students also have the opportunity to gain practical work experience in different projects. They qualify for life! TRAFFIC – NEWS China’s future traffic engineers and planners use PTV software during their studies Your contact: Lajos Zubor lajos.zubor@ptv.de www.ptvag.com COMPASS INTERNATIONAL 01/2008 14
Traffic Management / PTV AG Count, Analyse, Plan – with a Focus on Sustainability Transportation professionals have to manage and process huge amounts of data in traffic management. PTV’s TrafficCountManagement software allows them to enter, process and analyse these data records. Data preparation helps transportation planners and engineers to better evaluate traffic-related changes and to take appropriate measures aimed at improving the situation. Many cities cannot afford costly permanent traffic counters to collect data on inner-city traffic. Integrating short-term counts into the software allows them to cost-efficiently estimate annual average daily traffic (AADT) volumes. Count data are a vital component in traffic and transportation planning. They provide information on how changes influence traffic which is then used as a basis for decision-making in the field of transportation planning and urban development. PTV TrafficCountManagement (TCM) allows users to import, process and analyse count data from different data providers. Some of the key features include flexible import, plausibility check and the central data- base. A user-friendly count manager and key data administration complement the wide range of functions. Additionally, users can quickly and easily create complex MS Excel-based analyses and reports. The state of Tyrol, Austria, has been using the system since 2006. Tyrol has more than 136 count cross-sections and 13 traffic counters distributed across its motorway and expressway network covering about 2,300 km. The collected data are transferred to a computer centre for immediate processing. As a state that has to cope with a high volume of freight, commuter and holiday traffic, Tyrol now benefits from sustainable traffic and transportation planning based on the current analysis results. The state of Kärnten and Salzburg in Austria and the German state of Hesse (HLUG) as well as several transportation consulting firms have also chosen PTV’s TCM solution. The new version 2.2 includes node flow counts and short-term traffic counts. (Fig 1) The average annual daily traffic is calculated on the basis of permanent traffic counters with annual traffic flows that are similar to those at the cross-section of short-term traffic counts. It is also possible to manage node flow counts: a node editor enables users to flexibly define the node topology (Fig 2) and to easily import surveys from historic counts. This software is of particular interest to cities which cannot afford to install costly permanent traffic counters. But this is only one of the reasons why the City of Leipzig will soon participate in a pilot for the German market. In the United States, the Oregon Department of Transportation has chosen TCM features to improve transportation planning in numerous cities. ODOT is using the software to store their date and host their sites in one centralized system, which allows all user and planning groups to access all counts, both permanent and temporary, in one application. Fig 1: Data input for short-term counts Fig 2: A node editor allows node topology to be configured individually. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT – BEST PRACTICE The state of Tyrol, Austria, relies on data analysis for sustainable traffic and transportation planning Your contact: Ralf Frisch ralf.frisch@ptv.de www.ptvag.com COMPASS INTERNATIONAL 01/2008 15
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