Model development: Transport modelling re-engineered

Visual-tm five will represent a step-change improvement in transport modelling software, with flexible choice nests, agent-based modelling, activity-based modelling and model estimation, according to Peter Davidson and Adam Thomas of Peter Davidson Consultancy

10 December 2010

The launch of version five of Peter Davidson Consultancy’s visual transport modeller (Visual-tm) model is fast approaching and we are very excited about this great leap forward in transport modelling technology.

After version four, we analysed the way transport models are built and looked ahead to analyse the new types of models that we may want to build in the future. We have also analysed the current and emerging modelling guidance and the ways with which it can be modelled (see for...