NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS; January 2, 2008 - Caliper Corporation is
now shipping the latest version of TransCAD®, the world’s most capable and
popular travel demand forecasting package. TransCAD is used to predict
future traffic levels in major metropolitan regions and has applications in
evacuation planning, public transportation, freight planning, vehicle
routing, supply chain management, site location, drive time analysis, and
spatial market analysis. TransCAD is also a powerful geographic information
system (GIS) for all types of transportation-related data.
TransCAD 5 features unparalleled capabilities for travel demand modeling,
evacuation planning, and myriad GIS applications in transportation. This new
version incorporates powerful new traffic assignment algorithms for
computing traffic flows more accurately and more rapidly, including a
dynamic traffic assignment for modeling region-wide traffic levels at 5 or
10 minute intervals throughout an AM or PM peak period.
TransCAD 5 has a new engine for estimating and applying mode choice models,
and a new intersection editor that is compatible with Caliper’s
TransModeler® traffic simulation software.
GIS enhancements include the most powerful network editing ever, with
comprehensive undo and redo for geographic features, data tables and
matrices, a new map display manager, more flexible legends, improved
thematic mapping, and native support for ESRI personal geodatabases, MS
Access, Excel 2007, and Google Earth.
TransCAD is .NET enabled, so that TransCAD can be scripted by any .NET
capable language. The TransCAD’s GISDK scripting language now supports
object-oriented programming making it easier than ever to program TransCAD
extensions and add-ins with re-usable GISDK classes.
A greater number of key procedures in TransCAD 5 are multi-threaded and will
automatically take advantage of the latest multi-core CPUs from Intel and
AMD. This will result in significant speedups for running large
applications.
TransCAD is the world’s most widely used travel demand modeling package with
more than 7,500 users in 70 countries. In the U.S., it is the standard or
predominant software package in more than 27 states and has been used for
the largest models such as those for the New York, Los Angeles, Dallas-Ft.
Worth, Denver and Detroit regions. It is also used by a majority of state
Departments of Transportation, leading transportation consultants, and
research universities.
TransCAD 5 is available for Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Vista, is
compatible with TransModeler, Caliper's traffic simulation software, and
works with a wide range of other transportation and GIS software.
Caliper Corporation (www.caliper.com) is a leading developer of packaged and
custom transportation and GIS products, including Maptitude and
TransModeler. Caliper software products are used by more than 50,000 users
in over 75 countries.
For more information, please contact Howard Slavin at 617-527-4700 or by
email at howard@caliper.com.