Modeling & Planning

PTV Visum 2025 expands its capabilities with full integration with PTV Hub, the industry’s first true cloud collaboration platform for modeling and simulating. Manage your licenses efficiently with the Licenses app. Use the Models app to store models, define scenarios, and perform calculations in the cloud. The Dashboards app provides versatile reporting tools for detailed map-based visualizations, tables and charts. 

Revolutionize public transport planning with PTV Visum 2025's new algorithmic solution. This feature automatically generates the public transport network and headways based on infrastructure and demand inputs, optimizing service for passengers while minimizing costs. New functions in the "Check Network" window support the preparation of the network for route construction. 

Assess and compare the decarbonization impact and air quality effects of different scenarios. Using the COPERT methodology, this tool calculates road transport emissions directly within the transport model, following EMEP/EPA guidelines. This additional methodology complements the existing HBEFA-based calculation and even allows to define and use custom vehicle types and emission factors.

Enhanced ABM features include new choice types for improved model results. The Time-of-Day option sets activity start times based on location hours of operation, allowing testing of policy effects such as peak-hour tolling. Time-of-day, destination, and mode choices can be reordered, skipped, or fixed. Visum's ABM uniquely adheres to attraction totals, a common feature in aggregation models but rare in ABMs.

Optimize your assignment models with the new matrix thinning feature. This method reduces the number of low-volume OD pairs while keeping zone totals, resulting in significantly more efficient assignments. 

Companion is an AI-powered conversational interface designed for your questions about PTV Visum. You can use it for a wide range of questions, including complex ones. Companion is based on PTV's help pages, webinars, and other product documentation. It relies only on PTV-generated materials to reduce hallucinations and errors. Available in multiple languages, some responses are in English only. Always verify the AI's results with the quotes provided. 

Enhance your data visualization capabilities with the new origin-destination data export feature for PTV Publisher dashboards. This enhancement enables comprehensive visual analysis of transportation data. 

PTV Visum 2025 introduces a redesigned data model for public transport assignment results and ticketing/survey data. This new model speeds up post-assignment analysis and provides a better distinction between input records and processed data, enabling more effective ridership analysis.

Ensure that specific transport services are used in your models with the new Must-use Mode feature. This functionality supports the enforcement of specific public transport services during headway-based assignment, ideal for US and UK scenarios. 

PTV Visum 2025 now supports GeoJSON for importing and exporting geospatial data, enhancing compatibility with modern data exchange standards and ensuring seamless data integration. 

Reflect real-world practices in your models with enhanced zone tolling functionality that now supports single daily charging for multiple entries into toll zones. 

PTV Vissim 2025 subscriptions are fully integrated with PTV Hub, the industry’s first true cloud collaboration platform for modeling and simulating. Use the Licenses app to manage and share the licenses in your organization. Models app allows to store and simulate models in the cloud. Different random seed simulation runs can be calculated in parallel for faster results. During cloud calculation, your license remains free for use in the desktop software. The Dashboards app lets you create and share powerful reports on simulation results, including map-based visualizations, tables, and charts.

The new Automotive module streamlines testing and development in the automtive industry. A powerful OpenDRIVE import allows direct use of existing networks. Add traffic, routes, etc. with a single click. Preconfigured driving styles and driver errors allow easy modification of the traffic to adjust the challenge for the system under test. The simulation frequency can be increased up to 1000 Hz for XiL setups. And multiple parallel co-simulations on one machine are now enabled. 

Introducing a new behavioral model specifically for automated driving that differs from traditional Wiedemann models. This model uses an ACC-algorithm (Adaptive Cruise Control) for longitudinal control and an ALC-algorithm (Automatic Lane Change) for lane changes, reflecting precise sensor-based algorithmic control.

Significant usability improvements now allow seamless connections between links with different number of lanes, simplifying the modeling of lane merges or new lane starts. This improvement ends the need to e.g. duplicate routes and reduces modeling effort.

The OpenDRIVE network import now supports ASAM's OpenDRIVE 1.8. It also brings improved robustness for variable lane widths, the introduction of non-drivable areas, and automatic node creation. Simulation setup is simplified with the ability to automatically set conflict zones, speed limits, stop signs, and signal heads based on signal information. Default programs for running traffic lights are automatically created out of the box.  

Companion is an AI-powered conversational interface designed for your questions about PTV Vissim and Viswalk. You can use it for a wide range of questions, including complex ones. Companion is based on PTV's help pages, webinars, and other product documentation. It relies only on PTV-generated materials to reduce hallucinations and errors. Available in multiple languages, some responses are in English only. Always verify the AI's results with the quotes provided. 

PTV Vissim 2025 enhances vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication for advanced C-ITS functionality. Vehicles with the "SC Communication" attribute send variables such as position, speed, priority and ETA (estimated time of arrival) to the signal controller when on a lane with a valid MAPLane ID. This data helps prioritize public transport or preempt intersections for emergency vehicles to ensure safe passage.

With Econolite's EOS, PTV Vissim 2025 now includes one of the industry's most powerful ring barrier signal controllers. EOS combines a smart and dynamic coordinator that can adjust signal timing on-the-fly, powerful built-in safety features, best-in-class support for Signal Control Priority (SCP), and advanced data streaming capabilities. EOS also provides the operational benefits of adaptive split optimization without the need for a separate centralized system.  

The editor for the Ring Barrier Controller has been completely reimplemented to provide a fresh technological base with a new and modern design.

Easily add elevation profiles to links using external GeoTIFF files, which are widely available for various geographic regions. This feature enables exact modeling of the gradient resistance of vehicles, which affects emissions calculations and vehicle acceleration capabilities.

Users can now customize lane change durations based on time distributions, helping to calibrate driving behavior toward more aggressive or comfort-oriented models.

Formula-based parking routes allow you to select one of several routes to the same parking lot by using a formula to determine the relative flow. This allows vehicles to skip certain parking route decisions: For example, to avoid re-parking within a large multi-route parking facility, or to avoid routes that are not available to certain vehicles due to height restrictions.

Area impedances allow you to realistically model pedestrian behavior in large areas by favoring or avoiding certain subareas based on risk (e.g., the edge of a platform in the case of railways), surface attractiveness, weather protection, or other factors. 

PTV Vistro 2025 expands its capabilities with full integration into PTV Hub, the industry’s first true cloud collaboration platform for modeling and simulating. Manage your licenses efficiently with the Licenses app and use the Models app to store models and document revisions. Define your team, set access controls, and create workspaces to store your project data.  

Companion is an AI-powered conversational interface designed for your questions about PTV Vistro. You can use it for a wide range of questions, including complex ones. Companion is based on PTV's help pages, webinars, and other product documentation. It relies only on PTV-generated materials to reduce hallucinations and errors. Available in multiple languages, some responses are in English only. Always verify the AI's results with the quotes provided. 

Analyze two-way yield control intersections in Vistro by selecting this feature in the Traffic Control Workflow. Yield signs will appear on selected approaches, with yield-controlled approaches calculated differently from two-way stop control. Vehicles only stop when necessary, resulting in varied movement and controlled delays. Use this feature to compare yield and stop-controlled intersections in your mitigations and scenarios.

The Uncontrolled control type, now in Vistro, includes a set impedance factor affecting delay and assignment calculations, enhancing interoperability with PTV Visum workflows. This addition allows for consistent analysis and streamlined data integration between Vistro and Visum, improving traffic management and planning.

Vistro now includes advanced detection capabilities. Enter additional detector locations and lengths to create detailed detector placements that are exported to PTV Vissim. Seamless transfer of these settings to PTV Vissim ensures accuracy and consistency in your traffic simulations. These features are critical for fine-tuning detector settings, improving traffic flow, and enhancing safety by optimizing signal phase extensions and dilemma zone detection. 

Vistro now supports both fixed and floating force-off methods for optimizing signal splits on major and minor streets. The new floating force-off mode allows force-off points to shift based on previous phase demands, allocating unused time to coordinated phases and treating split times as maximums for non-coordinated phases. Fixed force-off, available previously, keeps force-off points static, letting non-coordinated phases use unused time from prior phases. Toggle these options in the Traffic Control workflow for better signal optimizations. 

Vistro now calculates Maximum Green when a pattern is active. The basic timing table's Maximum Green value is greyed out and editable only in free-running mode. This feature improves calculation accuracy, supports multiple patterns, and enhances Vistro’s integration with Vissim.

The Split Optimization feature now includes options where Major or Minor streets can optimize splits where Pedestrian timing can exceed vehicle splits. These settings allow longer pedestrian signals compared to vehicle signals, ensuring safer crossings on approaches with low pedestrian volume but longer crossing distances. Signals can temporarily operate out of coordination, mimicking real-world adjustments. This functionality enhancement is useful for maintaining traffic flow while accommodating pedestrian safety, especially where longer pedestrian phases are needed. 
 

The cycle length calculation for semi-actuated intersections now depends on coordinated flags in the "Phasing and Timing" sub-table. If a coordinated signal group exists, the cycle length aligns with the splits, matching the controller's cycle length. Without a coordinated phase, the cycle length adjusts based on demand. This improvement ensures more accurate cycle lengths, enhancing traffic flow and intersection efficiency. 

Visualize detector positions and lengths, toggle their visibility, and view their placement from the stop bar along the links. This graphical toggling and visualization allow you to quickly check detectors and settings while reviewing and ensuring that simulations in PTV Vissim are set up and ready to go. 

The new Google Streetview integration in Vistro lets users quickly access Streetview at their junction location. This feature streamlines the modeling process by enabling instant verification of geometry and signal phasing configurations. It enhances both efficiency and accuracy, allowing users to seamlessly check details withing the Vistro workflow.

Vistro now features a visualization of turning movements and lane group turns, simplifying the modeling of complex intersections with over five legs. This tool provides clear path arrows to confirm lane configurations, ensuring more accurate volume and lane setup. Correct lane configurations enhance simulation accuracy in PTV Vissim and streamline detailed intersection modeling, improving overall project precision and efficiency. 

PTV Hub’s Models app is your cloud-based solution for managing Visum, Vissim, and Vistro desktop models. Seamlessly organize, review versions, and securely share your models and scenarios with team members invited to your PTV Hub subscription. Upload models directly from your desktop, create revision notes, and easily revert to previous versions if needed. 

Leverage cloud computation for scalable, on-demand processing power, allowing you to run resource-intensive tasks concurrently without tying up desktop licenses. Maximize efficiency, free up resources, and keep your team focused on modeling with PTV Hub Models' streamlined workflows and cloud capabilities.

PTV Hub’s Dashboards app is your go-to tool for project insights and analytics. Included in your PTV Hub subscription, these customizable dashboards let you create and share personalized maps, charts, and animations, making data-driven decision-making easy. Visualize PTV Visum and Vissim results, explore model comparisons, and showcase simulations with interactive dashboards. 

Use filters to step through detailed analyses, and invite team members or stakeholders to collaborate seamlessly. Whether you’re summarizing key metrics or sharing with the public, PTV Hub Dashboards elevate your projects by turning data into actionable insights. Start making smarter decisions today.

PTV Hub’s Licenses app is your ultimate solution for managing PTV desktop licenses with ease. Whether you use PTV Visum, Vissim, Viswalk, or Vistro, this app centralizes license ordering, delivery, and management. System administrators can effortlessly view license statuses, manage subscriptions, and control user access from a user-friendly interface. The app ensures that licenses are secure and accessible only within your organization. New licenses are automatically delivered to your account, streamlining setup and user access. Simplify license management, reduce administrative overhead, and focus on delivering your projects with the PTV Hub Licenses app.

Accessibility Analysis ensures that all neighborhoods have access to public transport. Planners can quickly visualize how far people can travel, factoring in schedules. By integrating data such as population demographics and public services like schools, they can assess how well seniors, students, and other groups are served. This enables improvements to ensure inclusive access for all citizens.

Well-coordinated connections reduce travel and waiting times, significantly enhancing the passenger experience. With the Connection Analysis planners can visualize arrival times at each stop, identify transfer times, and assess the efficiency of transfers. This allows for adjustments to timetables, ensuring smoother connections and better overall service for public transport users. 

By overlaying demand data with supply data, planners can identify the routes and lines passengers choose for their journeys. They can analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) such as ridership and transfers across the network throughout the day, which helps them design routes and schedules that align with actual passenger needs. This data enables planners to adjust frequencies and routes, reducing overcrowding and wait times, and optimizing the network to balance cost and efficiency.

PTV Lines graphical export empowers you to transform public transport planning. Its intuitive design helps planners and operators present and communicate their ideas to decision-makers in a clear and distinct way. Decisions are then being made on transparent data and changes to services can be communicated to commuters quickly and with minimal effort.

The PTV Accessibility Score API provides calculated travel times for all relevant modes of transport like walking, cycling, public transport or car, from a location to key everyday facilities such as supermarkets, schools, restaurants, and many more. The value behind it? The synthesized easy-to-understand accessibility scores can be easily integrated, for example as additional information to real estate listings.

The Traffic Volume API gives you insights on how many people are traveling. PTV Access provides you with consistent model-based car and truck traffic volumes, valuable for location analyses, environmental analyses such as noise or emissions mapping and many more.

Have you ever wondered how many people live near your location? How much buying power they have combined? The PTV Isochrones API provides detailed travel times to a specific location for all relevant modes of transport, enabling you to intersect the travel times with various structural geodata in one go. This will boost your search to find the best location.

Analyze mobility in your city with PTV Access and discover the potential of different modes of transport. Accessibility analyses are an important tool for determining the efficiency of a transportation system. With the accessibility index from PTV Access, you can uncover gaps in mobility supply and quickly identify areas with potential for improvement.

The index takes into account the traffic volume of different types of transport at different times and indicates how easily a destination can be reached in a certain time. The results of the analysis can then be used in the number-based optimization of mobility concepts.

A multimodal Model2Go Supply model delivers an integrated, routable road and public transport network, with the added bonus of cycling infrastructure. The model auto-generates traffic zones and connectors for all modes, packing in spatial data like population and work locations. This means you can dive straight into basic transport analyses or use the Model2Go framework as your launchpad for more complex modeling.

As you might have experienced yourself: Not all data is publicly available. But, Model2Go adapts and allows the integration of customer data, which can be fed into the model if required. By integrating the custom data incl. spatial population and workplace data, Model2Go automatically intersects those with the generated transport zone system and provides customers with a customized supply model.

PTV Model2Go Demand combines smart automation technology with details about the origin/destination demand for a desired area. The travel demand matrices are powered by TomTom's trustworthy, scalable and reliable traffic data, covering up to 30% of the total private transport road traffic, reducing the effort to collect data empirically. The OD data, which is anonymized and compliant with data privacy regulations such as GDPR, is yet precise to the point, making it applicable to your desired matrix – resulting in even more accurate results.