PTV Group provides software for the next European transport model

PTV is to provide its modelling software PTV Visum and associated professional services as part of the task to develop the European TRIMODE project, a comprehensive multimodal transport model that covers in detail all freight and passenger transport movements across Europe. The project also includes the economic structures that generate this transport demand and the energy and environmental impacts that it creates. TRIMODE is intended to become a robust, fully operational and integrated modelling system
February 4, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
3264 PTV is to provide its modelling software PTV Visum and associated professional services as part of the task to develop the European TRIMODE project, a comprehensive multimodal transport model that covers in detail all freight and passenger transport movements across Europe.

The project also includes the economic structures that generate this transport demand and the energy and environmental impacts that it creates. TRIMODE is intended to become a robust, fully operational and integrated modelling system with PTV Visum as its pivotal element. The overall project duration will be 43 months.

Based on PTV Visum the model will cover a time horizon up to 2050 and can be extended any time during its lifetime. It will be used to forecast transport flows and will serve as a hub for the provision of base data for the assessment of planning strategies and policies, scenarios for population and development growth, and infrastructure schemes.

Led by the Italian consultancy TRT 369 Trasporti e Territorio, the TRIMODE consortium consists of eight partners from four European countries. PTV’s professional services will used for key tasks such as network development, providing support and advice on demand modelling and the final model validation.

Udo Heidl, director professional services for traffic software at PTV Group, comments: "We are more than proud to be part of the team that builds the next Europe-wide transport model for the EU Commission. It is a great project to show what our PTV software portfolio is able to do." The Commission itself calls the PTV solution a "well-known, established and fit for purpose software for the model and database".
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