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Title:

INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMING SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

Accession Number:

00139555

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/03611981

Abstract:

A major need of the transportation planner is for a system for efficiently managing, analyzing, and updating the volumes of detailed data used in multimodal transportation planning. Without fast, inexpensive methods of analyzing data, the planner simply cannot respond quickly enough to local community needs for an adequate range of transportation design alternatives. The Interactive Planning System (IPS), developed as an extension to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration Transportation Planning System (UTPS), has been designed to meet these needs by providing a timesharing operating system that eventually will make all of the UTPS software tools available to the planner in a convenient, interactive framework. To accomplish this IPS incorporates 3 major capabilities: (a) ALGOL-like command language for interactive computation, display, editing, data management, and initiation of batch-mode processing; (b) an integrated data base that automatically relates planning data to alternative designs; and (c) a graphics software capability for generating maps, charts, graphs, and perspective drawings. The system will be accessible through a lowcost interactive graphics terminal remotely connected to a time-sharing computer. /Author/

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Transportation Programming, Planning, and Evaluation. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411432

Authors:

CODY, ROBERT B
Goldman, Mark S
ZELLWEGER, ANDRES G

Pagination:

pp 23-34

Publication Date:

1976

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 574
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Conference:

54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Location: Washington District of Columbia
Date: 1975-1-13 to 1975-1-17

ISBN:

0309024889

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (16) ; Tables (1)

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Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Sep 16 1976 12:00AM

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