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TRIPS, the comprehensive transport modeling package, is specially designed for professional transport planners. The name stands for “TRansport Improvement Planning System”, which is subtly related the nature of transport: Trip!As a widely applied planning system in the world, TRIPS has been continuously developed during past several decades. Same as other known transport planning packages, it is based on the classical four-step transport planning theory: (Trip) Production, Distribution, Modal choice and Assignment. Its unique advantage is, however, with various projects applied in different countries on five continents, the owner MVA consultants combines rich experiences from all practices into the modeling feature, makes TRIPS improving itself all the time. Not long ago, a fully Windows version of the package: TRIPS/32 has been formally released, which has made full use of Windows (95/98/NT) capability and firmed the leading position in transport planning world. Another innovative development is the coming of Visual Planning Environment
(Viper), which is the newest product of Citilabs - the combination of
MVA Systmatica of UK and UAG (Urban Analysis Group) of US. Browse their web site
Why
you are recommended to use TRIPS?
Apart from common abilities, the following unique features are the real
reason makes it popular among cleaver planners: Innovative model management: The modeling process could be described as a Abundant on line help: The rich help information based on standard windows environment as well as the attractive TRIPS Infor-Show by PowerPoint and intuitive step by step self-learning tutorial on demo-shield platform, plus the fully functional 25 zone demo program package (for non-registered user) and thorough advanced 100 zone tutorials (for licensed user), all make the professional package easy to handle. Full Chinese environment TRIPS is the only world famous transport planning package which has full Chinese environment support. Actually, it is a multi-linguistic software, makes itself and it ’s reports easy to be accepted worldwide.Excellent graphic interface MVGRAF is specially designed for all core TRIPS modules. It ’s powerful input and output ability including not only on screen network editing, but also the way save some calculated results into the network volume field. The “on click menu” is so easy and friendly, and additional “Geographic Background Information” facility makes the graphic more readable.Powerful interior language TRIPS can also provide a flexible and powerful interior transport modeling language for the professional user. This language is called TCL: Trips Command Language. By which, special model structure could be directly established so can extend module ’s basic function to a high performance level.Continuous upgrading TRIPS was developed and is continuously upgraded by a special working group: TRIPS Team of MVA. Apart from providing full level technical support to new and old user world wide, the next most important role is keeping upgrading the package itself so could maintain the leading position and meet user ’s increasing requirements. A new system combining TRIPS information center (based on GIS) and TRIPS reporting center called TRIPS 2000 will be released soon. One more fact needs to be mentioned here: all these technical improvements are constructed on the close relation between MVA consultants and other research and educational bodies. London university and York university are two examples of such body has long and close link with MVA.Flexible ordering package How to purchase TRIPS is fully on your decision. TRIPS is priced in module and size bases. You may select the modules you need and the modeling dimension you required upon the purchasing. Of course something could be added in next time, thus makes money spending more efficient. Various training approaching Hand-on training could be provided personally on your working site. You are also welcome to the TRIPS “Home” – Woking, the MVA group’s headquarters, to attend regularly hold (twice a year) training course and meet those very developers! The cost could be included in the software package with preferential rate.Available TRIPS Versions
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如果您有任何建议，请给我们发电子邮件 (For any suggestion, welcome email to)
mvabj@public.bta.net.cn, Attention: Mr. Weng
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