Multimodal Traffic Simulation Software

Decreasing your agency's emissions and meeting your environmental regulations starts with a PTV Vissim simulation. 

PTV has partnered with Bosch to provide you with accurate emission results from your traffic simulations. 

Understand how your recommended solutions impact vehicle-based carbon emissions. Analyze various scenarios, consisting of traffic engineering solutions like adapted signal timing control, intelligent traffic systems or changing your vehicle types.  

Calculate emission results with Bosch's trusted cloud-based Air Quality platform, built from comprehensive country specific traffic and vehicle data. 

PTV Vissim provides different resolutions within the same software:  

On a microscopic level, the traffic simulation software offers the highest level of detail, as it simulates individual vehicles and pedestrians.  

The mesoscopic model has a lower level of detail compared to a microscopic model. The advantage is that a lack of detail significantly reduces the modeling effort and speeds up the simulation. That makes the process more efficient and enables you to simulate larger regions in no time. 

With PTV Vissim, you choose the level of detail, depending on the application. If necessary, the software allows you to create a hybrid simulation that combines both micro- and mesoscopic simulations.

We extended the PTV Vissim capabilities and benefits to the Linux OS and named it PTV Vissim Kernel. 

PTV Vissim Kernel is a headless calculation engine (kernel) that enables Linux users to work with PTV Vissim, the world’s most advanced traffic simulation software and the preferred simulation tool for OEMs and research organizations worldwide. 

PTV Vissim Kernel is the ideal tool to virtually test your Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies in realistic traffic movements.

Check planned measures with PTV Vissim before you implement them, thereby avoiding costly wrong decisions.  

With PTV Vissim you create a digital model of the nodes and corridors in your city. Then you add to the simulation private vehicles, freight transport, rail and road-bound public transport, or pedestrians and cyclists – the software maps all road users and their individual movement sequences and interactions. In this model, you define customized "what if" scenarios to evaluate operational countermeasures and their impact on the overall traffic flow.  

 Thanks to state-of-the-art integrated traffic management systems, you implement the appropriate measures to avoid congestions and reduce emissions in an instant. PTV Vissim allows you to map a variety of intelligent traffic management systems (or Advanced Traffic Management Systems - ATMS) to stabilize traffic flow and increase traffic safety.  

The number of autonomous and connected vehicles hitting the roads is constantly rising. Use PTV Vissim to study the driving behavior of such vehicles and their effects on traffic flow. The software simulates autonomous and connected vehicles and displays their specific motion sequences, as well as interactions with other connected and non-connected individual vehicles.  

 Create a comprehensive virtual testing environment using traffic simulation and map real traffic conditions to your infrastructure. PTV Vissim evaluates the behavior of every degree of automation.   

Public transport is one of the pillars of combating climate change. Less congestion means fewer emissions and that benefits the climate. If you increase the attractiveness of public transport, people use them more often. This raises the operator’s profitability while alsot contributing to a livable and sustainable environment. A higher travel speed and greater timetable reliability could make the difference. 

PTV Vissim not only simulates private transport, but also public transport lines (rail and buses), different vehicle types, timetables, stops, stop types and dwell times. Modeling coordination with signal timing controls enables you to simulate different variants of public transport prioritizations and analyze the effects on public and private transport.