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What's New in version 10.0

The following things have changed since version 9.0 of Tru-Traffic TS/PP (formerly TS/PP-Draft).

Improvements in Import & Export:

• Greatly expanded and improved options for importing trip logs from text tables (e.g., .CSV or .TSV files) and GIS shape files. Customize the data import formats on the fly with full view of the file's contents.
• Paste a trip log copied from Excel into the GPS View, with many customizable import format options.
• Greatly expanded and improved options for importing geographic positions from text tables (e.g., .CSV or .TSV files) and GIS shape files. Customize the data import formats on the fly with full view of the file's contents.
• Paste a set of geographic positions copied from Excel into the Network View, the Arterial Outline View, an Arterial Diagram, or even a blank (empty) Tru-Traffic main window, with many customizable import format options.

Improvements to the Network View:

• New option for creating a network: Import or paste a table of geographic coordinates into Tru-Traffic, then connect the dots to create arteries (or routes). The arterial diagrams are created with distances and geographic coordinates of the intersections, links are created for crossing arteries, and (if available) the names and intersection ID numbers are set.
• Options to show
  • cycle lengths, offset, and offset reference point at each intersection,
  • lanes, volumes, phases & splits, user-specified speed, distance, one-way designation, or exclusive control designation along each approach,
  • the direction assigned to the "forward" arrow along the artery at each intersection,
  • trip log stops color-coded by duration, and
  • a legend with the color-coding for trip log stops or trip log point speeds.
• Right-click a Trip Log to view its Properties, Details Table, or Playback, or to hide it, or show only it (hiding all other trip logs), or copy it to the clipboard.
• Balloon hint for intersection under mouse cursor displays name, cycle length, offset and reference point.
• When zoomed in, right-drag now scrolls the Network View.
• It is now a user option whether to auto scroll the Network View when the mouse hovers near an edge.

Improvements to the Arterial Diagram window:

• Show green bands for multiple modes of transportation (e.g., cars, bus, light rail, and bicycles). The bus and light rail bands may be specified either by offset within the cycle, by time of day, or a combination of both.
• The mouse wheel now zooms the Arterial Diagram window (or the Network View).
• When zoomed in, right-drag scrolls the Arterial Diagram window.
• When changing the zoom scale, if the mouse is over the arterial diagram window, use its position as an anchor point.
• Right-click a Trip Log to view its Properties, Details Table, or Playback, or to hide it, or show only it (hiding all other trip logs), or copy it to the clipboard.
• Balloon hint for intersection under mouse cursor displays name, cycle length, offset and reference point.

Improvements to Optimization options:

• Adjust offsets of user-selected intersections by a given number of seconds, with an easy to use tree view for choosing intersections to include/exclude.
• More options to minimize the transition between timing plans:
  • Minimize the transition at user-selected intersections.
  • Choice of minimization strategy and transition mode (e.g., Dwell, Add, Subtract, or Shortway) and time of day of the transition.
  • Choice of which timing plan's offsets to change, and which timing plan to transition to or from.
• Improvements to the automatic band width optimization:
  • Option to optimize for multi-modal bands (e.g., cars, bus, light rail, and bicycles), with user-specified weighting factors.
  • More user control of the scoring calculation: Consider just the usual band efficiencies (as a weighted average), or give partial credit for bands that progress partway through the artery.
  • Optionally give preference to start of the green band or end of the green band.
  • In viewing the volume-capacity ratios to choose directional weighting factors for the bandwidth maximization algorithm, add the option to check a group of intersections by highlighting them all then checking or unchecking a box in the highlighted group.
  • Optionally optimize for bands started from the side-street turning movements.
  • Option to specify the increment value when giving a range of cycle lengths for optimizing band width.
  • In showing the optimization results for various cycle lengths, show the band efficiency score for each direction and for each transportation mode band (e.g., cars, bus, light rail, and bicycles).

Additional Intersection Parameter options:

• Two new offset reference points: Start of first protected turn movement or Start of second protected turn movement.
• Options for specified phases to accept overrides without warning of minimum split, clearance times, and/or yellow trap phasings.

More options for the Travel Time & Delay Report:

• New statistics optionally included in the report: Minimum and Maximum values and various other Percentiles (e.g., 85th Percentiles).
• Option to omit the legend from Travel Time & Delay Report pages.
• Option to omit the table of contents links from the Details pages of the report.
• These new options can be useful if you generally copy and paste the reports into Excel for further analysis, as they make for a cleaner, more predictably formatted report.

Improvements to Trip Log management:

• View the Trip Log Properties, Details Table, or Playback by right-clicking the Trip Log in the Arterial Diagram, Network View, or Plot from Trip Log (e.g., Speed vs. Distance Plot). In the popup menus of the Arterial Diagram and Network View, you may also hide the selected trip log, or show only it (hiding all other trip logs), or copy it to the clipboard.
• In the various trip log selection dialogs (for setting, e.g., the speed, offset, or distance), let the user specify which statistic summarizes the selected trip logs: average, minimum, maximum, or various percentiles.
• In saving a Trip Log to an AVI video file, add option to specify the playback speed.
• Animated icon on the Start/Stop Logging Trips buttons.
• User-specified pattern for default label of newly recorded Trip Logs.

The list of links in the Arterial Outline View now accepts multiple selections, so you can break multiple links with one click.

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