This latest version offers an extensive mix of modelling, user-interface, reporting, and data handling enhancements.
New features in TRANSYT 15.5
Modelling Improvements
- Automatic network structure minimisation used to speed up optimisation
- Tool to auto-calculate pedestrian conflicts from network diagram
- Tool to auto-calculate pedestrian intergreens from a scaled network diagram
- Reducing cycle times is less likely to result in invalid initial timings
- Option to set cell saturation flow values automatically
- Minimum saturation flow value reduced to 50 PCU/hr
- Option to rotate all signal timings, in order to retain the same master controller offset after optimisation
Data Handling Improvements
- Saving of results for all analysis sets within one file
- Run all data sets in one go (Evaluation or optimised) using ‘run button’ drop-downs
- Red/green colour-coded tracking of up-to-date and out-of-date results
- Analysis and Demand sets can be colour-coded to assist in keeping track of categories of sets or match up related demand sets
- Main menu right-click options allow analysis/demand sets to be added or removed
- User-selectable sharing of data items between data sets
- Local OD Matrix can use flows from another local OD Matrix
- OD Matrices grids now only show locations associated with the currently displayed traffic type making them smaller and easier to use
- Ability to update multiples of same data item in one go, using a Data Grid.
- Simplified dispersion coefficient data-entry
- Import of SCATS volume flows from 48-detector files
Lane-flow Diagram “Flow Overlays”
- Show demand, achieved flow, or lost flow
- Filter by origin and/or destination, by OD matrix or by OD Location
Network representation/diagram Redesigned to Improve ease-of-use
- Stop-lines improved
- Auto-set lane arrows, based on estimated traffic turning movements
- Quickly show results on background without network structure
- Easier manipulation of backgrounds
- Option to suppress bend points (default is on) to speed up network creation
- Easier to use right-click ‘control type’ selection
- Existing collections can now have items added to them, via the right-click menu
- Second phases can now be specified using the traffic stream right-click menu
- Connectors now have direction arrows
- Improved scaling of overlays of pedestrian and vehicle flows
- Option to hide toolbars
- Quick flares now more visible
- Orange highlighting now easier to see when zoomed out
- Most network overlays now have a full key
General Graphical Interface Improvements
- Ability to take any window outside of the main window by double-clicking on its header
- Fully labelled toolbars for ease-of-use
- Improved layout of special data-entry screens (e.g. Main Data)
- Multiple data editor windows can be open at the same time
- Freezing of data editor/data grid contents using new fourth-level padlock, allowing you to compare before and after results
- Stored window layouts now work with multiple monitors
- Size of the underlying structure (path segments) of a traffic stream network now reported in bottom right-hand corner of the main screen
- New “Sync” button (see main menu) forces data grid to display data related to currently selected data item
- New “Fast mode” (see “Data” Menu) increases GUI responsiveness when working with large networks
- Copy and pasting of part sections of any data grid now allowed
- Improved quality of copy and pasted graphics (including option to define image resolution)
- New “Exhaustive data outline” option (Default is off) hides non-essential items unless they already exist in the file
- Use of new default OD Matrix settings ensures the use of traffic nodes is optional
- Enhancements to Audit Trail facility
- Task List has wrapping text descriptions to make long messages easier to read
Other Diagram Improvements
- New “phase diagram” option in stage sequence diagram
- Layout and available options for stage sequence diagram improved generally
- Additional options in stage sequence diagram to select alternative sequences and to set the currently displayed sequence as active
- Option to hide banned stage transition diagram in stage sequence diagram
- Multiple cycling shown differently
- Intergreen matrix banded stage changes more logically
- New option to rotate time distance diagrams by 90 or 180 degrees to match your most familiar orientation
Reporting Improvements
- Enhanced file comparison that allows comparisons between separate files and also within the same file, e.g. between different data sets
- Vertical toolbar “Results” button to speed access to most important summaries
- Rows of tables containing the same data are collapsed down to a single “All” row, and hence reduces the length of reports
- Signal timing penalties now reported as part of the controller results
- Enhanced cyclic flow profile (CFP) and analyser graphs
- Both CFP and Traffic graphs can be added to reports in either single or double column format
- Wide-Area Matrix tables now available in the HTML report
- New option to suppress pedestrian tables
- Local matrices’ general settings now in HTML report
- Minor Final Prediction Table improvements
Customers with a valid TRANSYT 15 maintenance agreement can download TRANSYT 15.5 at no cost. Simply email[email protected] with your details and the team will be in contact with your download code. New customers and those with older versions of TRANSYT are welcome to contact us to request a price quote to obtain the latest version.