Real Time Traffic Management With PTV Optima Software
PTV Optima is the key to successful traffic management. This model-based solution offers precise, real-time traffic information for the entire traffic network and produces reliable forecasts for the next 60 minutes.
Thanks to PTV Optima, traffic management centres can provide current and future traffic information to their teams and road users automatically. To achieve this, PTV Optima combines proven offline traffic modelling with real-time data and algorithms.
Thanks to PTV Optima, traffic management centres can provide current and future traffic information to their teams and road users automatically. To achieve this, PTV Optima combines proven offline traffic modelling with real-time data and algorithms.
This process is based on a transport model created in PTV Visum which represents each "typical day" (e.g. working days or weekends) for the transport area of interest. It models transport services and travel demand using demand matrices. PTV Visum uses dynamic traffic assignment to calculate the time-related traffic flows and turn rates in networks based on travel demand and it transfers this information to PTV Optima. In PTV Optima, this data is combined with the online data in order to adjust capacity, speed and volume from PTV Visum's base model to the current local flow and road conditions.
As PTV Optima explicitly includes the network structure, traffic flow dynamics and the route choice behaviour of road users, it also covers the traffic condition for roads without detectors (spatial distribution), predicts the impacts of unforeseen incidents (temporal distribution) and it can predict the consequences of even unexpected events. The tool can also be used to assess and compare different strategic actions.
As PTV Optima explicitly includes the network structure, traffic flow dynamics and the route choice behaviour of road users, it also covers the traffic condition for roads without detectors (spatial distribution), predicts the impacts of unforeseen incidents (temporal distribution) and it can predict the consequences of even unexpected events. The tool can also be used to assess and compare different strategic actions.
5 Reasons for PTV OPTIMA
- Real-time traffic forecasts
Managing traffic conceals increasingly complex challenges. Set up your traffic management in future-oriented fashion and rely on a solution which reacts to your network. Monitor your entire network despite a small number of measurement data and receive reliable traffic forecasts for a period of up to 60 minutes – even for unforeseeable situations. - Reliable decision-taking aid
Create different traffic management strategies offline using your individual KPIs and test these in a virtual environment. This creates trust in the measures formulated and provides your team with planning reliability in case of emergency. You are therefore able to get the most out of the resources at your disposal and open up new perspectives. - User-friendly work environment
See the weak points in the network at a glance, thanks to map displays, link-by-link level of service colouring and meaningful charts. PTV Optima's modern user interface also allows you to create, edit and manage objects and events intuitively. Standard technology and communication protocols such as WMS and WFS enable quick expansion to include and the incorporation of new external functionalities as well as of data to be visualized. - Integration into existing structures
Select software which fits into your existing IT infrastructure. PTV Optima can be connected optimally to your traffic computers as well as to tools for traffic observation and control. In addition, open interfaces allow seamless integration into larger software solutions. - Strong service
Become a member of our large international user community. Benefit from our skilled and dedicated support team, our professional services, and user group meetings, ensuring a high level of knowledge exchange.
The Traffic Supervisor
Traffic Supervisor is PTV Optima's web-based graphical user interface (GUI). It is structured intuitively and assists traffic managers optimally with their daily work. Traffic Supervisor allows:
- map-based monitoring of the current traffic state
- map- and list-based creation, editing and management of objects and events
- the evaluation of various scenarios
- the configuration of automatic warnings and notifications
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