INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMING SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

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/

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• Authors:
  • CODY, ROBERT B
  • Goldman, Mark S
  • ZELLWEGER, ANDRES G
• Conference:
  • 54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia
  • Date: 1975-1-13 to 1975-1-17
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 23-34
• Monograph Title: Planning and programming for transportation
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 574
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Charts; Computer programming; Computers; Databases; Graphics; Information processing; Interdisciplinary studies; Maps; Multimodal transportation; Social values; Software; Time sharing; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Graphical analysis; Interaction; Programming
• Old TRIS Terms: Community values; Interdisciplinary; Substitutes
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00139555
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309024889
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 16 1976 12:00AM