Safety in mobility

PTV software help you ensure the safety of mobility users by, among others, identifying risky roads and simulating pedestrians flows in crowded areas.

Introduce speed limits

PTV products help to manage incidents data at institutional level, identify the 'black spots' for traffic incidents, and narrow down corridors where high speeds have become a problem. Using PTV Vissim, you can simulate different speed limits and evaluate the impact to your corridor and the surrounding transportation network in terms of traffic flow and safety.

Associated products: PTV Visum, PTV Vissim

A PTV Vissim simulation of the effects of variable speed limits. Variable speed limits are adapted to current demand, harmonizing flow near capacity, and reducing the number of safety-critical events while at the same time increasing capacity.

PTV Visum simulation-based traffic assignment helps to understand dynamic traffic measures.

A PTV Viswalk simulation of people escaping from a burning building. In this simulation, evacuation times can be computed. It is also possible to import fire simulation result data and compute the effect on evacuees, to see if self-rescue is possible under the given circumstances.

The simplest use case of a pedestrian microsimulation: A PTV Viswalk simulation generates visuals with a known number of people, to compare them with the real scene to better estimate the real number of visitors. This simple measure helps create agreement about how many people are currently attending an admission-free event.

A PTV Viswalk simulation of supermarket operations in times of pandemic. Simulating attendance times gives a measure for aerosol levels and hence risk of transmission; simulating individual proximity gives a measure of potential droplet infections. With these, various operation schemes (one-way vs. free to move) can be compared. This simulation can also be used for future pandemics, with different transmission paths.

A PTV Vissim/Viswalk simulation of an airport security check. It gives insights into questions such as: How long does a check take? How long will the queues be? How much space do they need?

A PTV Vissim/Viswalk simulation of an airport security check. It shows how each passenger has own baggage which is submitted and recollected, as indicated by the match between shirt and baggage color.

Ensure safe and free flow of pedestrians

Whether in a street, a building, or a train station, PTV simulations offer the most accurate modeling of pedestrian movements. The powerful tools PTV Vissim and PTV Viswalk provide clarity on how passengers use public transport modes, including boarding, waiting times, change of platforms, and much more. This makes planning much more effective, including for emergency situations or when there is a need to keep social distancing. The same kind of clarity applies to people's movements on the street level and inside buildings - allowing you to adjust and prepare for every scenario.
Associated products: PTV Vissim, PTV Viswalk

Optimize Black Spot Management (BSM)

Our BSM tools enable you to perform all tasks of detecting, editing, and analyzing crash clusters. Identify black spots with heat maps or algorithms, filter crashes according to attributes within seconds, and display results for professionals and decision-makers alike. Country- and region-specific features can also be added.

Associated product: PTV Visum

Visualization of black spots in PTV Visum

Accident filter visualization in PTV Visum

Accident density assessment in PTV Visum

Upgrade assessments of Network Safety Management (NSM)

PTV tools empower planners and road safety analysts to assess the most critical points in the network according to their traffic significance. Through efficient and automatic processes, you can reference crashes to the digital street network, and blend data with traffic volumes. PTV software also helps assess safety potentials and their urgency, so measures can be prioritized and crash costs avoided.

Associated product: PTV Visum

Expand your Road Safety Impact Assessment (RIA)

PTV software expands your examinations to include questions of road safety. Crash prediction models are incorporated, so you can consider predicted crash occurrence in a street or the entire network - and compare various scenarios. You can choose between an included crash prediction model (based on the Swiss standard) or develop custom models.

Associated product: PTV Visum