The Migration of a VISUM Model to Cube Voyager: The Qatar Experience

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The Migration of a VISUM Model to Cube Voyager
The Qatar Experience

• Suthipun Thanesuen
• PCBK Consultants Co.,Ltd.

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Outlines

• Introduction
• VISUM
• Qatar National Master Plan (QNMP) Model
• Migration
• Why?
• How?
• Conclusion

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Introduction VISUM

• VISUM is a program for computer-aided transport
  planning which serves to analyze and plan a
  transportation system.
• A transportation system includes private and
  public transport supplies (PrT and PuT) and
  travel demand.

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Introduction QNMP Model

• In TMPQ, VISUM was introduced to forecast the
  future travel demand considering demographic,
  land use and network changes.

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Introduction QNMP Model

• Qatar is changing rapidly many changes ?
  Transport model has to be rerun.

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Migration Why?

• For the purpose of analysis, it was decided to
  migrate the output datasets from the existing
  transport model framework of VISUM into CUBE.
• To share the outputs between various team
  members. ? GIS

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Migration How?
Next, to export matrix files (.fma, .mtx)?
vehicle and trip matrices
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Matrix conversion
Network conversion
Cube conversion structure
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Visum matrix (.mtx)
Cube matrix (.mat)
Matrix conversion
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Zone conversion
Network conversion
Visum zone
Cube zone
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Cube Network
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Conclusion

• It is not difficult to convert from VISUM to
  CUBE. However, the adjustment is needed.
• Good points for CUBE widely use and cheaper.

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