TransModeler now allows you to simulate signalized intersections
and urban streets directly from HCS version 7.7 or later. Using TransModeler as the simulation tool to complement or
extend your traffic analysis project allows you to:
- Quickly animate operating conditions based on HCS
inputs
- Study interaction effects between closely-spaced
intersections and/or access points along an arterial
- Optimize signal timings along a corridor using state-of-the-art
simulation-based performance metrics
- Create unconventional
or alternative intersection designs and signal phasing patterns,
such as Median U-Turns (MUT), Restricted Crossing U-Turns (RCUT),
Continuous Flow Intersections (CFI) and Diverging Diamond
Interchanges (DDI)
- Quantify the effects of traffic control
characteristics beyond the scope of HCM methodologies, such as
channelized turn lanes and right-turn-on-red movements
- Create microsimulation-based, HCM-compliant Level of Service LOS
reports for Intersections (by individual lanes, lane groups, or
approaches), Interchanges, Roundabouts and Urban Streets
- Model residual queuing effects with multi-period turning movement
volumes
- Perform Traffic Impact Analyses (TIA) with the
latest ITE Trip Generation rates
- Add adjacent freeway
segments to interchange junctions to study the impacts of travel
time and travel time reliability improvements on mixed urban street
and freeway networks
- Visualize traffic operations with
high-resolution 3D animation
Information on downloading HCS with complimentary access
to TransModeler SE can be found at the
McTrans website.
The full functionality and flexibility of TransModeler SE is now available to users who wish to extend their HCS analysis to more detailed and more accurate evaluation of a broader variety of geometric designs, from single-lane and multi-lane roundabouts to novel intersection and interchange designs,
