We model people.

The people may be driving, or walking, or cycling, or be passengers on a train, or a bus.

We model them all the way from start to finish;

[ Depart - walk - drive - park - walk - train - walk - Arrive ]

Why is this useful? Today, a typical transport analysis study needs to look at all modes of transport, not just private cars. Following each person from person-origin to person-destination gives us a much clearer insight into the total cost of each trip. And if we know the total cost, we are better able to assess the potential benefit.

Carbon and other emissions are another set of measurements that we may want to know for the total trip. Moving people out of their cars may reduce the emissions from those cars, but the people still need to get where they are going, and we need to be able to measure that footprint, carbonated or not.

Microsimulation software tends to focus mainly on cars. More recently, some have introduced bolt-ons for "pedestrians".

In nanosimulation, we use the term "pedestrian" to characterise a mode of travel, not to create an underclass in our people. Pedestrians are not just obstacles to vehicles, they are people too, with an origin and a destination, and travel delay is important to them.

Think about this for a moment. Are you a pedestrian?

1. Never
2. Sometimes
3. Always

We think most people fall into category B.

So if you want to model people travelling from X to Y, shouldn't you be using software that can follow the same simulated person all the way, regardless of mode of travel?

 

Our software is designed from the ground up to model people. We think this is better than bolting together two or more systems from different designers.

That's not to say that our software is new and unproven. We use proven algorithms at the core of our software, but more importantly, we give you the choice of which of those algorithms to use.

Fritzsche
Gipps
Wiedemann

 

Nanosimulation is the term we use to describe modelling each person through all modes of a trip. This level of detail allows us to measure all parts of a single trip, and apply cost values to each part separately:

• time and distance for driving in a private vehicle
• time and distance for riding on public transport, and price of fare
• time and distance for walking
• time waiting
• price of parking

If required, other factors can also be calculated - for example, total carbon emissions for the whole trip.

We call this type of analysis door-to-door economic assessment. The cost is based on all parts of a person-trip, regardless of mode.

Where might this be used?

• Assessment of a park-and-ride facility by comparing the total cost of travelling from home to work
• Assessment of parking strategies at an airport, by looking at total travel time from home to check-in, including parking price strategies and willingness to pay for different user groups

We are a software company.
We design, build and support software for simulation modelling.
We have been doing it for over 15 years.

We use the latest technologies to give you the best performance. And
we pay attention to how easy it is to use our software for real projects,
so you don't waste your time.

What do we offer?

• Choice of behaviour models? Yes.
• Point and click, copy and paste, template libraries? Yes.
• Multi-threading, for dual/quad core processors? Yes.
• Application Programming Inteface? Yes.
• Full 3-D graphics with shading, transparency and textures? Yes.
• Exorbitant price? No.

No hyperbole here.
We let our software do the talking.
You be the judge.

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