Traffic Impact Analysis Software
Date published: Aug 05, 2005
Survey consists of responses from four vendors who market traffic impact analysis software in the U.S. Topics/questions include:
- What is the name of your software?
- Please provide contact information for your software.
- Please indicate the price range or pricing basis of your software. Also, indicate available price options/discounts.
- Under what operating systems does your software run?>
- Does your software perform capacity analysis?
- What methodologies does your software support for capacity analysis (a city might require that an impact study be completed using HCM1995 or HCM 2000, etc)
- Does your software allow for the documentation of assumptions made associated with a particular impact study?
- Does your software allow for basic parameters to be changed (e.g. saturation flow rates)?
- Does your software provide a connection to traffic count software so that traffic volumes can be imported without having to re enter the information?
- Does your software determine a trip generation rate and traffic generated from a particular land use/site?
- How many different types of land use within one development can your software handle?
- Does your software provide a graphical representation of the road network in the traffic impact area?
- Can this network be edited on screen?
- How does your software accommodate reductions in vehicle trips generated from a new development due to transit, ridesharing, passer-by trips, staggered working hours, bicycle/walking trips, telecommuting?
- Does your software offer the ability to enter/adjust assigned volumes on screen? Does your software have the ability to optimize the timing of a planned intersection if that is part of the traffic impact analysis?
- How many intersections in one traffic impact study can your software analyze?
- Does your software track the turning movements of trips from a particular land use?
- How many access points at one development can your software analyze?
- Does your software provide the user with suggested measures to mitigate the traffic impact of new developments?
- Does your software provide a comparison between the cost effectiveness of alternative traffic mitigation measures?
- Please provide a listing of the reports/output/results provided by your software as a result of a traffic impact analysis.
- To what other programs can the results from your software be exported to?
- Can your software export results to a text editor?
- Is your software stand alone or does it require other software (e.g. Microsoft Excel)
- If your software requires additional software to run, what software does it require?
- How many years has your software been in use in the U.S.A. and outside the U.S.A.?
- How many organizations use your software in the U.S.A. and outside the U.S.A.?
- How extensive is your on screen help?
- Which of the following options do you provide for support and training: software maintenance, group training, individual training, online help, on screen tutorials, user groups, newsletter, telephone support, other (please specify)?
- What is the annual cost of support for your software
- What is included in your annual software support contract?
- Do you provide a site license or do you require the use of a dongle with each license
- What is your typical response time to questions related to the use of your software?
- Please indicate the main strengths of your software<T>
- When did the last update to your software become available?
- Please indicate some additional features that will be added to your software within the next 12 months.
- Is a free demonstration version of your software available
- Can your software be ordered from McTrans or PCTrans?
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