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TSC research facilities

The Centre is at the forefront of the latest technologies and research methodologies.  In order to survive in today's world, one must continue to be world-class in all aspects of one's operations.

When it comes to the Centre's research facilities, this is no different.  State-of-the-art laboratories, computer equipment and software solutions are just some of the resources the Centre has available to continue its world-leading research program and consultancy.

It is not enough simply to say we have resources, we want to know what they are too, so below is just a very small list of what we have:

If you would like more information on how our facilities and resources can help your organisation, please contact Kylie Fairbank.


Computer systems facilities

The Centre always looks towards the future by maintain leading-edge (and at times bleeding-edge) technologies.  All the latest computer hardware, computer operating systems, and transport related software form the arsenal we use to tackle some of the world's most difficult transport challenges.

Below is a list of just some of our computerised facilities:

Hardware platforms
   
Pentium III and 4 (1.1GHz+) PC computers
    SUN Workstations
    Macintosh Computers

Operating systems
   
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP Professional
    MacOS 9+
    RedHat LINUX 8.0+
    SunOS

Software development environments
   
Micosoft Visual Studio 6.0, .NET 2002
            Visual BASIC 6.0 & .NET
            Visual C++ 6.0 & .NET
            C#
    BORLAND Delphi 5.x+, C++ Builder
    GCC (2.95.2+)
            C/C++
            Objective C
            Fortran (g77)
            Java
            ADA


National laboratory for transport network analysis

The Centre has assembled a significant research infrastructure for use in its projects.  This infrastructure has been integrated into the National Laboratory for Transport Network Analysis (NLTNA), a facility for computer-based modelling and analysis of transport systems.

The NLTNA includes a wide range of state-of-the-art Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and commercial network analysis software packages as well as research and development models developed at the Centre.

The laboratory has state-of-the-art computer hardware and maintains copies of major software products for traffic simulation, transport network modelling, signalised intersection design and analysis and related urban traffic issues.

GIS packages available in the laboratory are TransCAD, MapInfo, in addition to all ESRI products including ARC/INFO and ArcView.

The NLTNA also holds copies of the Metropolitan Adelaide Household Travel database and the ABS Adelaide journey to work database, as part of the TSC’s on-going collaboration with Transport SA. The TSC also offers training courses in CUBE, Paramics and aaSIDRA.

The NLTNA is used as the primary facility for the TSC’s integrated research program in transport network analysis. The current research and development program includes many projects that use the resources of the NLTNA. These projects are in the following areas:

The centre is recognised as a SPECTRE (Special Centre  for Transport Research and Education) by Citilabs Inc, the developers of the CUBE software.  It also has a special working relationship with Quadstone Inc, the developers of the Paramics software.


Software solutions

We have an extensive range of commercially available software solutions that make the task of providing real answers to your challenges simpler and quicker!   Our team has extensive experience in the solutions below, and these are just to name a few!

Geographic information systems
    TransCAD
    ARC/INFO
    MapInfo

Traffic/Planning Software
    EMME2
    PARAMICS
    CUBE
    QRS2
    TRANPLAN
    SIDRA
    INTANAL
    PARKSIM
    Qdelay
    SCATES
    SATFLOW
    SIMSET

TSC developed software
    TraffikPlan
    CABAL
    NetNoise
    GENIE
    SELATM and suite of ARC/INFO traffic models
    SIMESEPT

 

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