[OSGeo-Discuss] free software for transport planning

[Alexandre Neto]

Ricardo,

It's good to see that some  public institutions are doing they homework
well :-)

Alexandre Neto
Em 19/09/2014 15:52, "Ricardo Pinho" <rpinho_eng at yahoo.com.br> escreveu:

> Hi Robert,
> Thank you for those references.
> 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.
> 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.
> After a short query I've been able to find several aplications (see below).
> 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:
>
> - Simulation of Urban MObility
> http://sumo-sim.org/userdoc/Sumo_at_a_Glance.html#About
>
> - Multi-Agent Transport Simulation (MATSIM)
> http://www.matsim.org/
>
> - Open Source Sustainable Transport Informatics Platform (OSSTIP)
>
> http://www.appropedia.org/OSSTIP:_Open_Source_Sustainable_Transport_Informatics_Platform
>
> - Transportation Analysis and Simulation System (TRANSIMS)
> https://code.google.com/p/transims/
>
> There are several listing on this subjetct, with many other solutions:
> https://sites.google.com/site/cosiopentransportation//home/open-source
>
> http://streetswiki.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0+-+Recommendations+for+Transport+Planning+Applications
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Cheers,
> Ricardo Pinho
>
>
>
>   Em Quinta-feira, 18 de Setembro de 2014 0:01, Robert Cheetham <
> cheetham at azavea.com> escreveu:
>
>
> Ricardo,
>
> The tools of which I'm aware are focused on transit planning (rather than
> more transportation in general) and include:
>
>  * World Bank Open Transit Indicators -
> https://github.com/WorldBank-Transport/open-transit-indicators - 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
>  * Open Trip Planner Analyst - a project that began at OpenPlans and is
> now led by Conveyal - http://www.opentripplanner.org/analyst/
>
> Best,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Ricardo Pinho <rpinho_eng at yahoo.com.br>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I would appreciate any reference about free software solution that covers
> the range of transport planning - from strategic planning to traffic
> engineering and simulation.
> What I am really looking for is an alternative to PTV Vision
> <http://vision-traffic.ptvgroup.com/en-uk/products/ptv-visum/use-cases/>
> for a national level use case.
> Thank you very much,
> Ricardo Pinho
>
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