Tutorial de utilização do Software TransCAD no planejamento de transportes - uma abordagem inicial.

Abstract

For the past years, the discussion about the urban mobility is gaining global distinction, considering that the cities are finding difficulties in guaranteeing the continuity of the traffic flow produced and attracted by his activities. The results can be seeing in traffic jams which directly impact the population’s quality of life, the environment and the economy, this last feature considering the increasingly demand for investments necessaries to decrease these negative effects and the excessive time wasted for the persons on their trips around the town. Facing this problem, the transport engineering appeared aiming to understand and to optimize the way the distribution of the travels happens on the roads. To help in this analysis, Caliper corporation developed the software TransCAD, object of study of this paper. This paper aims offer initial instructions about the use of TransCAD basic functionalities devoted to the initial topics faced and studied in the Transport Engineering discipline of the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, such as the application of the mathematical model of multiple linear regression for correlation analysis between different classes of data, methods to estimate irgin/destiny matrices and growth factors and travels placements. Before what was studied, it was possible to conclude that, even considering that the software main language is English and despite it having little intuitive interface, the set of resources available gives the user the opportunity to plan the traffic interaction needed to complex net analysis. TransCAD represents a complete software able to store, exhibit, manager and analyze traffic data.