To Extend Mobility Digital Twins for Dynamic
Multimodal Simulation
Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure
engineering software company, today announced the acquisition of
INRO Software, a global leader in multimodal transportation
planning, traffic simulation, and mobility visualization software.
The acquisition expands Bentley’s capabilities in the important
growth area of mobility digital twins, just as countries including
the U.S. are poised to make a generational investment in
infrastructure, and as transportation systems must evolve faster to
accommodate both urbanization and carbon reduction goals, and the
transition to electric and autonomous vehicles.
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Image produced with Emme
(www.inrosoftware.com/emme) using data from Metro
(https://www.oregonmetro.gov/) (Image courtesy of INRO)
INRO, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, has for more than 40
years contributed to the advancement of mobility simulation and
modeling for metropolitan, regional, and national transport and
transit operators and planning agencies. Users of its multimodal
simulation offerings include some of the world’s busiest transit
systems and metros, such as Transport for London, Transport for New
South Wales, the Washington State Department of Transportation, the
Swedish Transport Administration Trafikverket, and the public
transport system of São Paulo SPTrans.
INRO’s products include Emme, a multimodal transportation
planning system for urban, regional, and national transportation
forecasting; Dynameq, a vehicle-based traffic simulation platform
for city-wide traffic planning; and CityPhi, a mobility
visualization solution providing data visualization and visual
analytics of large-scale mobility and geospatial datasets.
Combining the capabilities of INRO’s advanced traffic and
vehicle simulation with Bentley’s passenger and pedestrian
simulation and civil design software, including CUBE, Streetlytics,
LEGION, and OpenRoads, places Bentley in a very strong position to
deliver comprehensive mobility digital twins of multimodal
transportation systems at urban, metropolitan, regional, and
national scale.
Advancing Mobility Digital Twins
Urban planners are seeking to understand the ongoing impacts—on
transportation system performance, reliability, and
accessibility—of the new opportunities and challenges of private
and shared mobility, the propensity for cycling or walking,
connected autonomous vehicles, and potential congestion charging.
With respect to their traditionally circumscribed use of
transportation modeling tools in isolation and only on occasion,
multiple advantages are now attainable through mobility digital
twins, which can be continuously updated with as-operated
engineering conditions and with observed traffic data. Mobility
digital twins bring these functions together so that infrastructure
planning and simulations can be continuously valuable throughout
engineering, construction, and operations.
The pandemic experience reinforces the resilience value of
sustaining “evergreen” planning and engineering modeling and
simulation to maintain fitness for purpose during unanticipated
eventualities. With the priority now on “building back better,” it
is increasingly recognized that the most economical way to augment
infrastructure capacity, while accomplishing the needed energy
transitions toward climate sustainability, is to optimize the
utilization, configuration, and life extension of existing mobility
assets, while adding integrated and appealing public transit
options.
This requirement now sets the stage for mobility digital twins
that need to be multimodal, need detailed dynamic traffic
assignment and agent-based methods for veracity, and need to scale
up to systemwide and regionwide—uniquely hallmarks of INRO. As the
leader in infrastructure digital twins, Bentley’s iTwin platform
can now bring together—with the best-validated aggregate and
individual vehicle and pedestrian simulation—3D/4D continuous
surveying and reality modeling, civil engineering and project
delivery, and asset and network performance. Ultimately, the
opportunity for digital cities is to save their constituents time
in their day, while at the same time improving congestion and
climate resilience, and safety.
“We are very pleased to welcome INRO to Bentley Systems,” said
Robert Mankowski, senior vice president, digital cities, Bentley
Systems. “Professor Michael Florian and his team led the research
of advanced multimodal network modeling methods which helped
establish state-of-the-art mobility simulation, and in this next
generation his son Dan is leading its software future in our
mobility digital twin advancement. With the addition of INRO and
its world-class team, Bentley Systems can even better accelerate
cities and regions in going digital to ‘build back better’!”
Dr. Michael Florian, founder of INRO, said, “Bentley is a
recognized leader in transportation across the infrastructure
lifecycle from planning and design to heavy civil construction and
road network management. My colleagues and I are very excited to
join Bentley and to help realize the vision shared by thousands of
cities and urban regions throughout the world to improve their
sustainability and quality of life.”
Image 1: Emme
Caption: Image produced with Emme
(www.inrosoftware.com/emme) using data from Metro
(https://www.oregonmetro.gov/)
Image 2: Dynameq
Caption: Image produced with Dynameq
(www.inrosoftware.com/dynameq) using data from SFCTA
(https://www.sfcta.org/)
Image 3: CityPhi
Caption: Image produced with CityPhi
(www.inrosoftware.com/cityphi) using data from
http://www.andresmh.com/nyctaxitrips/
Image 4: INRO Products
Caption: INRO is a global leader in multimodal
transportation planning, traffic simulation, and mobility
visualization software
Video: Seattle synthetic travel demand model
Caption: Illustration of ~20 million activities completed
over the course of a day by 3.6 million people from a synthesized
travel demand model of the Seattle metropolitan region. Activities
are shown as time-animated vertical extrusions of population
movements colored by purpose. The heads-up display summarizes the
visible population by current activity. Video prepared by INRO
using CityPhi (www.inrosoftware.com/cityphi). More information on
source data, provided by PSRC, is available at
https://www.psrc.org/activity-based-travel-model-soundcast.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering
software company. We provide innovative software to advance the
world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and
environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by
professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design,
construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and
transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities,
buildings and campuses, and industrial facilities. Our offerings
include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and
simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset
and network performance, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure
digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,000 colleagues
and generates annualized revenues of more than $800 million in 172
countries. www.bentley.com
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Dynameq, CityPhi, iTwin, LEGION, MicroStation, OpenRoads,
ProjectWise, and Streetlytics are either registered or unregistered
trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one
of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other
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