NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS -
Caliper Corporation is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
TransCAD 4.7, which is a major step forward for America’s most popular and
most powerful transportation planning software.
TransCAD 4.7 features expanded demand forecasting capabilities, numerous
performance enhancements, new planning utilities, expanded GIS capabilities,
and new included transportation data. There are
new versions for standard, base, and academic licenses available
immediately.
Planning model improvements include a new nested logit application module
that is very easy to use and has very high performance, and a completely
revised set of modeling methods for public transit. The public transit
methods enable accurate treatment of park and ride facilities, timed
transfer service, fare policies, and vehicle capacities.
Speed improvements have halved the running time of most transit
skimming and assignment procedures. There is a
completely new select link and select zone that is very flexible and
convenient, and TransCAD’s powerful trip table estimator is now multimodal
and will simultaneously estimate trip tables for cars and various types of
trucks. Support for detailed modeling of traffic
at intersections and calculating intersection LOS has also been expanded.
There have also been many scripting enhancements and TransCAD now
includes a new customizable user interface that integrates scenario
management, model scripts, and the production of informative graphics.
A variety of additional modeling methods and improved importing tools
make it easy to move models into TransCAD from other software without
changing the results significantly. The travel
demand forecasting manual has been substantially revised and expanded to
reflect these new capabilities.
TransCAD 4.7 has new density mapping capabilities that are an ideal way to
map accessibility and can summarize point level information effectively.
TransCAD 4.7 is .NET-enabled and can be programmed with a wide
variety of .NET programming tools.
There is also a new version of TransCAD for the Web which is the easiest and
most cost-effective way to implement transportation planning-oriented web
sites. Examples of TransCAD for the Web that
include transit customer information and schedule-based trip planning,
planning model and Census data access, and travel diary survey
administration can be found at
www.caliper.com/web/transcad.htm.
Now entering our twentieth-first year in operation, Caliper is North
America’s leading provider of transportation planning software.
Caliper is also a highly regarded provider of consulting and research
services. Caliper offers free technical seminars
on TransCAD and free or low cost conversion of models from other planning
software into the TransCAD environment. For more
information and free demonstration software visit
www.caliper.com or call 617-527-4700.