PTV UK & Ireland's 23rd User Group Innovation Day
UGM | November 27th 2023
Training Workshops | November 28th - December 1st
ETC Venues | St Paul's | 200 Aldersgate | London
We are excited to welcome you to the 23rd User Group Meeting in London!
The PTV UK & Ireland User Group Meeting returns on the 27th November 2023. Join us, and learn about the newest features and gain insight on the use of PTV software.
Sign up to attend today and get access to all the following:
- Presentations and panel discussion on the future of modelling
- What's new in PTV Visum & PTV Vissim/Viswalk
- Workshops/discussions on PTV Software innovations
- Presentations of interesting applications of PTV Software
- Your questions answered - Live Q&A session
Discover the program of the event
27 NOVEMBER 2023 – ETC Venues 200 Aldersgate
8:00 - 09:00
Registration and Breakfast
FUTURE OF MODELING
09:00 - 10.30
Welcome – PTV UK & Ireland 23rd User Group Meeting
Devrim Kara, PTV Group
An academic view on the future of modelling
Professor Elisabetta Cherchi, Newcastle University
10.30 - 11.00
Break and PTV Stands: Flows, Lines, Model2Go, Optima, Publisher, Visum, Vissim, Viswalk
PTV UPDATES
11.00 - 13.00
What is new in Visum and user feedback
Anett Ehlert, PTV Germany
What is new in Vissim/Viswalk and user Feedback
Peter Sukennik, PTV Germany
Hardware and Cloud
David Aspital, PTV UK
Hardware and Cloud
Peter Sukennik, PTV Germany
Building models fast
Laurence Chittock, PTV UK
Building models fast
Hussein Falih, PTV UK
PTV Lines
Chris Papaioannou, PTV UK
Viswalk reengineering & next steps
Peter Sukennik, PTV Germany
Hybrid Macro-Meso Modelling
Romanos Siatitsas, Systra, and Michael Oliver, PTV UK
Emissions modelling
Brad Entwistle and Katy Thorpe, Aecom
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch and PTV Stands: Flows, Lines, Model2Go, Optima, Publisher, Visum, Vissim, Viswalk
USERS SESSION
14:00 - 15:30
Robust evidence-based assessments of ULEZ
Luis Perez Echevarria, Transport for London and Michael Oliver, PTV UK
Multi-modal scenario testing with microsimulation
Miriam Leonardo Fernandez, Mott MacDonald
Microscopic pedestrian modelling for public transport station improvements
Søren Frost, COWI
15.30 - 16.00
Break and PTV Stands: Flows, Lines, Model2Go, Optima, Publisher, Visum, Vissim, Viswalk
USERS SESSION
16:00 - 17:00
Modelling Managed Lanes Using Visum
Jeff Tjiong and Richard Frost, Oxford Economics
A guide to developing an ABM in the UK
Lou Mason Walsh, Cambridgeshire County Council and Laurence Chittock, PTV UK
Simulating construction traffic control
Chris Davis, Modelling Group and Tom Crowther, Black Sky Thinking
18.00 - 22.30
Darts, food and social at The Flight Club in Shoreditch
Training Courses
During November we will be delivering expert-led training courses for PTV Visum, PTV Vissim and PTV Viswalk.
PTV Group Team
Speaker Panel
Elisabetta Cherchi
Professor of Transport
Newcastle University
Miriam Leonardo Fernandez
Principal Transport Consultant
Mott Macdonald
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Søren Frost
Transport modelling and Simulation modelling Specialisy
COWI
Connect with Søren on LinkedIn
