<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Hi Robert,</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Thank you for those references.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">As a Metropolitan Transport Authority we need to create macro public transport models to simulate, analyse and plan the transport network and services provided to the city population.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">PTV and other providers, offer very efficient software tools to help on those dificult and complex tasks. But they are based on closed source software licenses that we, beeing a public administration, should avoid and look for open and free equivalent solutions.</span></div><span style="" class="">After a short query I've been able to find several aplications (see below).</span><span style="" class=""><br>But I am relative new on this particulary transport area, so I don't know much about those alternatives. I really appreciate any recomendations from who already used some of these: </span><span style="" class=""></span><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">- </span>Simulation of Urban MObility</div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">http://sumo-sim.org/userdoc/Sumo_at_a_Glance.html#About</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">- Multi-Agent Transport Simulation (MATSIM)<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">http://www.matsim.org/</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">- </span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Open Source Sustainable Transport Informatics Platform (</span>OSSTIP) </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">http://www.appropedia.org/OSSTIP:_Open_Source_Sustainable_Transport_Informatics_Platform</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="" class="">- </span>Transportation Analysis and Simulation System (TRANSIMS)</div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">https://code.google.com/p/transims/<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">There are several listing on this subjetct, with many other solutions:<br style=""
class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/cosiopentransportation//home/open-source</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">http://streetswiki.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0+-+Recommendations+for+Transport+Planning+Applications<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Thank you in advance.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Cheers,</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Ricardo Pinho<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br
style="" class=""></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <font style="" class="" face="Arial" size="2"> Em Quinta-feira, 18 de Setembro de 2014 0:01, Robert Cheetham <cheetham@azavea.com> escreveu:<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""> <div style="" class=""><div style="" class="" id="yiv0410010641"><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Ricardo,<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class="">The tools of which I'm aware are focused on transit planning (rather than more transportation in general)
and include:</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class=""> * World Bank Open Transit Indicators - <a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/WorldBank-Transport/open-transit-indicators">https://github.com/WorldBank-Transport/open-transit-indicators</a> - this is a project Azavea is developing under contract with the World Bank - we expect the initial version to be complete by the end of December</div><div style="" class=""> * Open Trip Planner Analyst - a project that began at OpenPlans and is now led by Conveyal - <a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.opentripplanner.org/analyst/">http://www.opentripplanner.org/analyst/</a></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class="">Best,</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""
clear="none">Robert</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="all"><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="" dir="ltr"><span style="" class=""></span><span style="" class=""></span><br style="" class="" clear="none">------------------<br style="" class="" clear="none">Robert Cheetham<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class="">Azavea <span class="" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;"> | 340 N 12th St, Ste 402, Philadelphia, PA</span><br style="" class="" clear="none"><a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:cheetham@azavea.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:cheetham@azavea.com">cheetham@azavea.com</a><span style="" class=""> | T <span style="" class="" title="Call with Google Voice"><span style="" class="" title="Call with Google Voice"><span
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<br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class="">On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Ricardo Pinho <span style="" class="" dir="ltr"><<a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rpinho_eng@yahoo.com.br" target="_blank" href="mailto:rpinho_eng@yahoo.com.br">rpinho_eng@yahoo.com.br</a>></span> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="" class="" id="yiv0410010641yqt27246"><div style="" class=""><div class="" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt;"><div style="" class=""><div style="" class=""><div class="" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt;"><div style="" class=""><div style="" class=""><div class=""
style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt;"><div style="" class="">Hi everyone, <br style="" class="" clear="none">I would appreciate any reference about free software solution that covers the range of transport planning - from
strategic planning to traffic engineering and simulation.<br style="" class="" clear="none">What I am really looking for is an alternative to <a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://vision-traffic.ptvgroup.com/en-uk/products/ptv-visum/use-cases/">PTV Vision</a> for a national level use case.<br style="" class="" clear="none">Thank you very much,<br style="" class="" clear="none">Ricardo Pinho<br style="" class="" clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br style="" class="" clear="none">_______________________________________________<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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