Articles
Teaching autonomous cars to drive like humans
WIRED UK Magazine, Feb 2021: Autonomous cars can learn how to drive more smoothly and navigate using local landmarks thanks to harnessing an old-fashioned resource: human intelligence
Newsroom
Articles
Preparing for the road: When and where can CAVs serve?
OmniCAV blog, Jan 2021: George Economides, the Future of Mobility team leader at Oxfordshire County Council, discusses the challenges of international CAV collaboration, and how simulations and operational design domain can bridge the gaps.
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Green light for major revamp of the Champs Elysées avenue in Paris
Jan 2021: In early January, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo gave the green light to a dramatic makeover of the Champs Elysées avenue.
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LEVITATE: using autonomous vehicles as urban passenger cars
Jan 2021: New article reporting on some of the latest results from the LEVITATE project, investigating how autonomous vehicles could be implemented in the operation of passenger cars in cities.
Webinars
February 3, 2021, ITS2 Webinar – Smart Motorways
Aimsun’s Alex Torday describes Aimsun’s pioneering contributions to traffic management on smart motorways in Australia.
Articles
Semi-controlled testing at the Culham Science Centre
OmniCAV blog, Dec 2020: Dr Garry Staunton, Lead Technologist in Remote Applications in Challenging Environments at UKAEA, discusses the benefits of semicontrolled AV trials.
Articles
Traffic on the digital road
Dec 2020, GSV Yearbook: Dr Karin Kraschl-Hirschmann describes the potential of Aimsun and Siemens ITS solutions for evaluating multimodal door-to-door travel and even smart traffic systems and connected cities in Austria.
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New release! Aimsun Next 20.0.2 is ready for download
Dec 2020: Version 20.0.2 is ready to download, with various improvements related to mesoscopic and hybrid macro–meso modeling.
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Aimsun Live simulates gating strategies in Perth CBD
Dec 2020: We’re supporting Main Roads Western Australia and The University of Western Australia in building Aimsun Live simulations of gating strategies in Perth CBD.
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Aimsun working on FIA Smart Cities initiative
Dec 2020: The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has just announced Siemens as their official supplier of urban mobility solutions.
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New Simcenter Prescan Release
Dec 2020: Siemens announces the release of Simcenter Prescan 2020.4, the physics-based simulation platform for testing and development of automated vehicles.
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Coming soon! New training course in pedestrian simulation
Nov 2020: Following the launch of our in-house Aimsun Next pedestrian simulator, we’ve developed a new training module for pedestrian simulation.
Articles
Realer than real: transport models join forces with driving simulators
Automotive Industries (Ai), Nov 2020: As more companies combine their driving simulators with the power of traffic simulation, the quality and realism of testing continues to improve.
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Siemens Mobility announces carve-out of ITS business
Nov 2020: Markus Schlitt and Jan Villwock announced this morning that ITS will be a separate legal entity in the new fiscal year.
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HumanDrive: Measuring User Comfort in Autonomous Vehicles
Oct 2020: New white paper on the HumanDrive project, helping AVs emulate a more natural, human-like, driving style.
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Aimsun Next 20.0.1 now ready for download
Oct 2020: Ubuntu users will be especially happy with improvements in the latest version of Aimsun Next mobility modeling software, now available for download.
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Aimsun exhibits in the new Capri Virtual Museum
Oct 2020: The findings from this project to build public, regulatory and market trust in autonomous vehicles are showcased in a new virtual museum. Take the tour!
Webinars
Webinar: OmniCAV Simulation and Modelling System for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Mark Brackstone presented this OmniCAV paper at the 2020 edition of the IEEE ITS Conference.
Articles
Aimsun looks ahead to Bergen traffic deal
ITS International, Oct 2020: Aimsun is to pilot a traffic management system next year in Norway’s second-largest city, Bergen.
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Aimsun to deliver smart traffic management pilot in Bergen, Norway
Sep 2020: Aimsun wins contract to deliver smart traffic management to Bergen, as part of the NordicWay program.
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Modeling interaction with driverless vehicles
Autonomous Vehicle International, Oct 2020: Paolo Rinelli summarizes the new Aimsun software features and collaborations that give insights into potential driverless vehicle scenarios.
Articles
OmniCAV environment capture
OmniCAV blog, Sept 2020: Simon Navin of Ordnance Survey describes the preparation of geospatial data for simulating self-driving systems and how test and simulation environments can be developed using location information.
Articles
Models in the Covid-19 era
Traffic Technology International, Sept 2020: A thought leadership piece from Gavin Jackman on the unique challenges of 2020, and how a smart new collaboration can help us rise to the challenge.
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Technology to keep traffic flowing gets the green light
The Times, Sept 2020: Graeme Paton reports on how surfing waves of green traffic lights may soon be a possibility.
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BAMBOO big data analytics project completed
Aug 2020: This groundbreaking H2020 project extracts travel demand information from mobile phone records and integrates the data into Aimsun Next mobility simulations.
Articles
“Now is the time to rethink our strategies”
Martin Hartmann joins the Inside Intertraffic Podcast (at 21:40) to talk about the role of simulation in helping city planners work towards a new normal.
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New Aimsun Live pilot in Perth, Western Australia
Aug 2020: A new Aimsun Live pilot system for Perth CBD will be the testbed for a study using AI and ML solutions to improve traffic predictions.
Articles
La nova versió d’ Aimsun Next es centra en els vianants i les bicicletes
MobiliCAT: l’última versió del programari de
modelització de mobilitat Aimsun Next té una sèrie
de funcions per ajudar els planificadors a entendre
el moviment de vianants i ciclistes.
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Aimsun-Website ab sofort auch in Deutsch!
July 2020: We are making great inroads in the German-speaking markets and we are pleased to announce that our website is now available in German
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Sydney team welcomes new Managing Director and changes premises
July 2020: July brought big changes for our Sydney team, who moved to larger offices on George Street and also welcomed Scott Aitken as new Managing Director.
