New single-trip microsimulation software to help you perform your real-life traffic and travel assessment tasks with ease and with minimal cost

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• Compare traffic and travel conditions before and after introduction of traffic management schemes, intersection and road improvements, residential street traffic calming schemes, and so on, without need for time-consuming and costly network data preparation work.
• Assess intelligent transport system applications, driver training programs and vehicle characteristics.
• Analyse trips of any length as well as selected sections of a trip in a flexible way.
• Analyse standard drive cycles used in vehicle fuel consumption and emission testing.
• Determine vehicle operating and user costs including toll cost. 
• Estimate noise levels (dBA) generated during the trip using three different models: ASJ 2003 (Japanese) Model, SonRoad (Swiss) Model, and RLS-90 (German) Model.

• Use Metric or US Customary units.
• Use your own defaults settings for a large number of input, output and model parameters using Defaults.
• Create your own (customised) vehicle and driver types using appropriate parameters describing vehicle and driver characteristics for simulating passenger car, light vehicle and heavy vehicle movements.
• Control the text and graph displays, as well as various input, model and animation settings using Options.
• Calibrate the parameters of the operating and user cost models for your local conditions allowing for factors such as the value of time and cost of fuel.
• Specify speed parameters including Desired Speed, Lower and Upper Speeds to define a Stop, and Speed Groups for output.

Import trip data collected by an instrumented vehicle, for example, using output from a GPS data logger in a variety of formats:

• CSV (comma-separated values) file (csv),
• Text (tab-separated text) file (txt),
• NMEA Text (GPS-standard) file (txt),
• GPS Exchange file (gpx),
• Track file (trk),
• Garmin Database v 1.0/2.0 file (gdb).

• Define trips simply by specifying initial and final speeds to represent vehicle idling, cruise, acceleration and deceleration manoeuvres with markers representing traffic events.
• A variety of event marker types are available: Stop Sign, Give-Way / Yield Sign, Speed Hump, Pedestrian Crossing, Roundabout, Traffic Signals.
• Detector loops can be specified to simulate vehicle detection by presence detectors.

Text Output

Obtain various text output including trip statistics, sums of statistics for a given number of trips, and detailed statistics per drive-cycle element:

• Trip Assessment,
• Speed,
• Cost (Operating or User),
• Fuel Consumption,
• Emissions (CO2, CO, HC, NOx),
• Noise.

Diagnostic function will identify unreliable data. Warning messages and detailed information about data quality will appear in text output windows.

Graphs

The following graphs for cumulative (total) and instantaneous (per unit time) values of various parameters are available:

• Motion Graphs (Distance, Speed, Acceleration, Jerk, Average Speed),
• Fuel Graphs (Fuel Consumption Total, Fuel Consumption Time Rate, Fuel Economy),
• Emission Graphs (CO2 Total, CO2 Time Rate, CO Total, CO Time Rate, HC Total, HC Time Rate, NOx Total, NOx Time Rate),
• Cost Graphs (Cost Total, Cost Time Rate),
• Energy-Related Graphs (Energy Total, Power, Tractive Force),
• Noise Graphs (ASJ 2003 Japanese, SonRoad Swiss, RLS 90 German),
• Miscellaneous Graphs (Loop). 

Animation

• Animate the movement of a vehicle as defined in the trip profile with dynamic graphs linked to the vehicle movement.
• Animate driving on the left-hand and right-hand side of the road.

Text output and graphs can be printed:

• directly using the associated Print function (standard Windows printing facilities apply), or
• by copying and pasting into a word processing (e.g. Microsoft Word) or graphics (e.g. Microsoft Paint) file.

You can save the HTML-based text output as separate files suitable for viewing with web browsers. You can also save simulation data in csv, txt or xml format.

• SIDRA TRIP contains comprehensive help facilities. The Help menu gives access to the main Help file and the SIDRA SOLUTIONS website.
• Extensive documentation (User Guide plus major supporting technical reports and papers). See Downloads.
• We have been running highly successful SIDRA Training Workshops to help you solve intersection evaluation and design problems effectively and reliably. You can contact our Representatives to facilitate organisation of a training workshop for employees and other SIDRA SOLUTIONS software users in your region.