Karlruhe, Germany, will be the host city for the upcoming PTV Vision International UGM, October 21-23. Please visit PTV AG’s UGM page for more information.
Plans are underway for the 10th Annual PTV Vision ® Users Group Meeting, which will be held in Portland, OR, in the spring of 2009. More information will be available as details are finalized.
The 2008 event took place in Philadelphia, PA, May 15-16. We extend our gratitude to all the presenters and attendees who made the UGM possible. Over 80 people attended from across the US and Canada for enlightening presentations by PTV Vision users and PTV America staff. Our evening events included a Phillies ballgame and dinner at Philadelphia’s historic City Tavern.
Below are the 2008 presentations. Some of the files are rather large, so be patient if you are not on a broadband Internet connection.
| TOPIC | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | PRODUCT |
| New Developments in VISUM | Klaus Noekel | PTV AG | VISUM |
| New Developments in VISSIM | Peter Vortisch, Lukas Kautzsch | PTV AG | VISSIM |
| Pedestrian Simulation | Peter Vortisch | PTV AG | VISSIM |
| New RBC Controller in VISSIM | Connie Hotard | PTV America | VISSIM |
| Calibrating Weaving Sections in VISSIM |
J. Alejandro Saniger, Sofia E. Arroyo | Cal and Mayor | VISSIM |
| Roundabout Capacity | David Stanek, Joel Rabinovitz | Fehr & Peers | VISSIM |
| Minnesota ICE Evaluation | Denny Eyler, Leif Garnass | SRF Consulting | VISSIM |
| Modeling of Parking Lot Utilization, Walking & Gender Specific Travel Behavior at a University |
Mike Hafner, Sara Senger, Ed Hayes, Chetan Joshi | TEC Engineering, PTV America | VISUM |
| Application of an Integrated Travel Demand/Traffic Operations Model City of Goleta General Plan Development Process |
Bill Cisco | Dowling Associates | VISUM |
| Use of VISUM in the PA Transportation Impact Fee Program |
Jim Cullison | Trans Associates | VISUM |
| Dubai Bus Master Plan File 1 File 2 File 3 |
Petra Strauss | PTV AG | VISUM |
| Modeling Transit with VISUM: Conversion, Today and Tomorrow |
"Dick Walker, Ben Stabler | Portland METRO, PTV America | VISUM |
| Improving the Stochastic Traffic Signal Optimization Performance of Coordinated Actuated Traffic Signal Controls using VISSIM and Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) |
Joyoung Lee, Brian Park | University of Virginia | VISSIM |
| Getting More by Working Together | Yi-Chang Chiu, Jeff Shelton, Swapnil Samant | University of Arizona, Texas Transportation Institute | VISSIM |
| Improved Traffic Signal Efficiency in Rural Areas Through the use of Variable Maximum Green Time |
Aswini Rajagopalan | AECOM/CTE | VISSIM |
| Characteristics of Routes in a Road Traffic Assignment |
David Boyce, Hillel Bar-Gera | Northwestern University, Ben Gurion University | VISUM |
| "He says, she says" - Data and Model Validation and Verification | Kevin Chang | HNTB | VISUM |
| Building Confidence in TFlowFuzzy: Trip table development, validation and application in Downtown Windsor, Ontario |
Malcolm Mackay | McCormick Rankin Corporation | VISUM |
| Use of VISSIM to Model to Operation of Taxi Staging, Dispatching, and Curb Loading at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport |
Gustavo Ceballos | HNTB | VISSIM |
| Delaware River Port Authority's Toll Bridge Simulation Models |
Michael Howard | DRPA | VISSIM |
| DVRPC Traffic Operations Modeling of the Schuylkill Expressway in VISSIM |
Christopher M. Puchalsky | Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission | VISSIM |
| Major Event Attendee Analysis Using Macroscopic Network Model with Dynamic Traffic Assignment |
Kean Lew, Karen Giese, Fang Yuan | PTV America | VISUM |
| VISUM Application at the MPO Level: An Overview of a Travel Model Update in the Colorado Springs MPO |
Mary Lupa, Maureen Paz de Araujo, Paul Hershkowitz, Craig Casper | WSA, HDR, PPACG | VISUM |
| Regional Transport Model for the Tepic - San Blas Highway, Mexico |
Ricardo Pezo | Cal and Mayor | VISUM |
| Simulation of Large and Congested Networks – the Capital Beltway HOT Lanes VISSIM Modeling Experience |
Gustavo Ceballos | HNTB | VISSIM |
| PTV Vision Suite for City Wide Modeling |
Ravi Ambadipudi | Burgess & Niple, Inc. | VISSIM/VISUM |
| Baltimore Red Line - Challenges of a Large Model Area |
Mahmood Shehata | McCormick Taylor |