TEAPAC Suite, PRENETSIM details

PRESYNCHRO
Pre- and Post-processor for SYNCHRO Network Manipulation

PRESYNCHRO is the pre- and post-processor function in TEAPAC Complete to be used with the SYNCRHO/SIMTRAFFIC program. SYNCHRO is a popular way of inputting data due to its intuitive input interface, as well as providing colorful on-screen displays of quick and easy performance assessments, optimizations and animations. When methods that are more time-proven, government-sponsored and validated are desired for assessment, optimization and animation using well-understood tools such as TEAPAC, TSPPD, PASSER, TRANSYT and CORSIM, TEAPAC provides the interface to accomplish exactly that.

TEAPAC can Import an entire SYNCHRO network from its UTDF files and share this information immediately with other TEAPAC applications such as signal capacity analysis and optimization, traffic impact studies, count analysis, warrant analysis and progression analysis, as well as any of its other Export functions, thereby allowing the data inputs to SYNCHRO to be used by any or all of the functions and programs mentioned above for more complete, proven and trusted results in terms of assessment, optimization and animation. Upon completion of the assessment, optimization or animation of the network by these other methods, PRESYNCRHO can export these results back to SYNCHRO for further viewing and/or as a final resting place for the optimized parameters.

In the event a network is originally defined within TEAPAC, an entire SYNCHRO network can be created from the TEAPAC data by an Export so that SYNCHRO's assessment or animation tools can be utilized to represent the performance of the network. If SYNCHRO's casual optimization is of interest to the TEAPAC user, the optimized variables can be Imported back into TEAPAC for comparison to those obtained by other techniques, either by visual comparison or analytical comparison using the time-tested tools described above.

TEAPAC and its supported third-party programs provide the following functions over-and-above those of SYNCHRO/SIMTRAFFIC: legitimate capacity analysis and signal optimization according to the strict methods of the Transportation Research Board's 2016 or 2000 Highway Capacity Manual (HCM2016 or HCM2000), TRANSYT's time-proven, FHWA-supported simulation and optimization of signal networks, CORSIM's time-proven, FHWA-sponsored microscopic simulation and animation, PASSER-II's true bandwidth optimization from TTI/TXDOT/FHWA, TSPPDRAFT's legitimate time-space and platoon-progression diagrams following the TRANSYT flow model.

As a result, PRESYNCHRO fully-integrates the visually attractive SYNCHRO/SIMTRAFFIC programs into the world of fundamentally sound traffic operations software.

this page last updated February 04, 2019