Aimsun Next is traffic modeling software that allows you to model anything from a single intersection to an entire region. With thousands of licensed users in government agencies, consultancies and universities all over the world, Aimsun Next stands out for the exceptionally high speed of its simulations and for fusing travel demand modeling, static and dynamic traffic assignment with mesoscopic, microscopic and hybrid simulation – all within a single software application.
Aimsun Next allows you to carry out traffic operations assessments of any scale and complexity. The applications are endless but some of the most common are:
The Aimsun Next hybrid simulator gives you simultaneous microscopic and mesoscopic simulation, allowing you to model large areas while zooming in on all areas that require a finer level of detail.
Combining an event-based mesoscopic model with a more detailed time-sliced microsimulator offers a best-of-both-worlds scenario, blending superior computational efficiency with precise representation of traffic dynamics.
The hybrid simulator features the following:
The addition of four-step demand modeling was yet another step towards true integration: you can start a transportation modeling project from scratch, entering raw geographical and socio-economic data and follow the process all the way through to simulation without having to use a separate package.
No more interfacing with external traffic demand models for importing data as a starting point or as a means of redistributing demand from one mode to another or to estimate the impact that capacity changes have on overall demand levels.
Designed by traffic engineers for traffic engineers, the Aimsun Next user interface ticks as many boxes as possible on your wish list:
One of Aimsun Next’s most outstanding features is its speed: our microscopic simulator is the fastest on the market by far and the finest microsimulation tool available in the world for large-scale projects.
Multithreaded software architecture speeds up the simulation process to such an extent that it completely redefines what can be included in a dynamic model, be that a major city or a large and complex highway network.
Even on a laptop, the Aimsun Next microsimulator can run a model of the whole of Singapore with 10,580 intersections and 4,483 km of lanes 2-3 times faster than real time.
It’s not just our microsimulator that’s fast – the speed of the mesoscopic simulator has enabled our users to build some of the world’s largest dynamic models in Montreal, Toronto and New York City.
Dynamic user equilibrium (DUE) techniques and stochastic/discrete route choice models are both available in Aimsun Next in combination with either mesoscopic or microscopic modeling. This framework gives you the unrivalled flexibility of modeling recurring and non-recurring conditions at the appropriate level of accuracy. But it doesn’t stop there: by reusing previously obtained static or dynamic equilibrium assignment routes in a new simulation and combining them with discrete route choice, Aimsun Next users are able to reproduce the blend of habitual driving and on-the-fly congestion avoidance that occurs in reality. The result? The tools for reproducing the most realistic representation possible of route choice behavior under any conditions.
In addition, Aimsun Next’s rich traffic management framework allows you to model network operations that may have an impact on route choice:
Aimsun Next fits right in with your existing software and can exchange data with the most popular CAD, GIS, transport modeling, signal optimization and adaptive control software tools.
Aimsun Next works with most other planning, signal optimization and adaptive control software. Aimsun Next can import data from CONTRAM, EMME, VISUM, CUBE, TransCAD, SATURN, PARAMICS, VISSIM, GIS and CAD, which eliminates a lot of unnecessary editing of network and demand data. Aimsun Next has interfaces to SCOOT (by Siemens), TRANSYT 15 (by TRL), SCATS, UTOPIA and VS-PLUS, which enable accurate emulation of adaptive control in Aimsun Next simulations.
Aimsun Next works on Mac OSX, Linux Ubuntu, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 10.
For unbeatable speed. 64-bit: capable of handling very large models that can be built upon and added to.
When it comes to expandability, Aimsun Next is second to none. Make Aimsun Next your own using familiar industry standards such as Python and C++ in four different ways:
Network Revisions is part of a new set of Scenario Management features that has revolutionized the process of comparing and revising base and future scenarios.
Network Revisions allows you to make a change in the base network model and apply the edit automatically to all related future scenarios. With network revisions you can also simultaneously store different edits in individual future scenarios without affecting the base model and keep all the scenarios in the same file for easy reference.
Our new Geometry Configurations feature allows you to keep multiple geometries in a single Aimsun file.
Comparing future alternatives is easier than ever: you can add as many configurations as you like and activate them in different scenarios with a single mouse click. Coupled with Network Revisions, this feature provides a powerful and flexible framework for version control – with Aimsun you’ll eliminate errors and duplication, menial copy-and-paste tasks and unmanageable file libraries.
Network Revisions and Geometry Configurations are part of the move away from throw-away, one-use models to the maintainance of a base model that you can use again and again for operations analyses: create the current state, make revisions for different projects and then whatever you have built is consolidated in the base model, which therefore remains up-to-date.