The world’s leading transportation planning software

Make the right decisions as your transportation system evolves. With its integrated scenario management, PTV Visum enables effective preparation and evaluation of many scenarios. You can create and manage modifications to the model: infrastructure developments, new transit lines, population forecasts, and zoning policies. Scenarios can then be composed and evaluated in batch computations. Define and extract key KPIs according to your planning goals and compare them to make the best plan for your community. Compare individual scenario variants, down to the smallest detail. When networks or inputs change, the scenario manager highlights results which may no longer be valid. 

PTV Visum transportation planning software supports the evolution of mobility systems through data-based assessments of scenarios. These models are complex, due to the diversity of human mobility and its interactions with its surroundings. To effectively evaluate many possible future variants, short model run times are critical. The PTV Visum algorithms are therefore continuously optimized with new methods and techniques, such as contraction hierarchies and parallel processing. Especially in the key area of traffic assignment, amazing accelerations have been achieved in recent years. Improvements to other tools such as loading, filtering, and displaying of results are continuously added as well. 

Developing and maintaining transportation models means using data from many providers and sources. PTV Visum offers a variety of interfaces to import such data and to integrate it into the model. In addition to generic formats for tabular and GIS data, there are specialized interfaces for public transportation data, demand matrices, and signal controls. Build and maintain multimodal networks with powerful tools for data integration, matching of public transportation lines to road network, merging of redundant or neighboring objects, timetable simplification, and more. 

Good documentation of transportation models enables their long-term use by multiple diverse users. PTV Visum supports this need with a “self-describing” data model, graphical user interface, scripting API, and procedure/parameter files. All attributes are described by tooltips in the user interface. Calculation methods are displayed in a graphical user interface – so programming and scripting knowledge are only needed in advanced applications. Most visualizations can be adapted to perfectly suit the needs of the actual model users.  

PTV Visum is the right solution for efficient multimodal transportation modeling. With this PTV transportation planning software, you can plan transportation in a city or a region, get information on the mode split, analyze all travel processes in detail, and find the best solutions for present and future mobility challenges. Use PTV Visum software to develop a master transportation system plan for the entire region, even when there is little data available. 

PTV Visum is the ideal public transportation planning software: it provides key figures on user experience (travel times, frequency, walking times, fares), as well as operational aspects and costs (operating times, performance kilometers, empty runs, vehicle requirements, depot use). You can evaluate network and timetable variants and operating concepts. By combining strategic transportation demand models with operational assessment tools, your decisions will always be well-informed. 

For the best long-term fleet procurement and maintenance, PTV Visum provides tools for travel demand forecasting, fleet planning, and operational concepts. Fleets with different types of vehicles can be allocated according to flexible criteria, including demand. PTV Visum considers depot capacities, turning times, empty runs, and other factors. By comparing different scenarios, you derive the optimal options for fleet procurement and operating costs. The transportation planning software also considers electric vehicles - their unique energy consumption, charging processes, and charging infrastructure. Different operating concepts, such as overnight and opportunity charging, can be compared.

PTV Visum helps transportation planners and engineers to design, analyze, and integrate new modes of mobility. The transportation planning software models cars, bikes, walking, and ride-sharing schemes, as well as their integration with all the variants of public transportation. With PTV Visum, you can also study the effects of autonomous and connected vehicles. 

PTV Visum includes procedures for calculations of emissions and noise from transportation, so you can assess these impacts without additional software. When used early in the planning process, it can help to detect unwanted effects of transportation measures, such as increases in total emissions due to detours. 

Use PTV Visum to model toll systems and access restrictions, such as low emissions zones (LEZs) or bans on trips for through-traffic. For area-wide restrictions like LEZs, the software considers resulting detours in routing and KPIs. Toll systems are studied as distance-based, area-wide, or tariffs between network access points. A special assignment procedure provides realistic representation of user preferences between toll costs and travel times. As a result, evaluate how tolls affect users’ route lengths, travel times and costs, and the expected revenues for operators. 

With PTV Visum, your transportation model has more impact through meaningful maps, diagrams, and 3D presentations. Even non-experts will easily understand the results and conclusions. Of course, you can also print any outputs. PTV Visum offers a variety of interactive graphic tools for analyzing and editing data – all flexible and adoptable to your needs. Special tools for public transportation include graphical timetable, schematic line network plan, and graphical block editor. The windows can be arranged on several screens, and you can switch between configurations. A synchronization mechanism ensures that different representations are focused on the same selected objects. 

PTV Visum provides you with the latest tools for outreach to partners and stakeholders. Use the PTV Visum Publisher tool to create interactive dashboards of your Visum models and scenario analysis. Plus, easily upload scenarios and dashboards to the PTV cloud, and then share them with your team or with the public.  

To get a better level of detail when planning roads, PTV Visum offers enhanced operational modeling capabilities. The powerful mesoscopic assignment method Simulation-Based Assignment (SBA) enables fast and accurate traffic flow simulation of large networks. As a result, the network effects of local traffic management strategies are assessed easily and accurately. You can also extract data from large-scale models and analyze it in local models within the microscopic traffic simulation software PTV Vissim, or in real time applications using PTV Optima. 

PTV Visum supports Activity-Based Demand Models (ABM), which model mobility decisions of individuals instead of groups of people. As a result, daily activity and travel schedules are created with information on start times, time spans, locations, and mode. Easily integrate and manage your ABM demand data; store surveyed or synthesized households, persons, tours, and trips; and connect them to the database. Trips can be assigned to static assignment paths for analysis. Use PTV Visum to also import, manage, and analyze third-party highway and transit simulation model results.