8th PTV Vision UK User Group Meeting
Summary
IntroductionTraining
User Group Meeting
How to become a presenter
Social event
How to book a place
Location/Times
Directions
Car Parks
Hotels
Contacts
Major updates to this page
Main documents at a glance
UPDATE-080410: AbstractsUPDATE-080415: Leaflet
UPDATE-080415: Programme
Main dates at a glance
March 21: deadline submission 300-word abstracts (for authors);April 9: deadline submission papers (for authors);
April 18: deadline booking events;
April 23: VISSIM beginners and VISUM beginners classes;
April 24: VISSIM advanced 1 and 2, VISUM advanced 1 and 2 classes;
April 24: Social event;
April 25: User Group Meeting.
Introduction
PTV organizes this event to be held from April 23rd to April 25th 2008 to which you are invited. UPDATE-080415: A leaflet of the event is available here. The User Group Meeting, which is part of a series of worldwide events advertised here, pertains mainly to the VISSIM microscopic traffic simulator and the VISUM strategic modeling software plus related tools (www.ptv-vision.com ). It will address state-of-the-art modelling work by the users, development plans by PTV and more specifically the latest new versions of the software. People with no previous experience would find it useful too.
The current page will be kept up-to-date with information on the
event as the preparation progresses. To help tracking the changes, the most
important ones will be tagged with the date in the format UPDATE-YYMMDD
(YY=year; MM=month; DD=day). At the bottom of this web page there is the list of
those major updates. It is possible to navigate to hyperlinks from this page and
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Training
Prior to the user group meeting parallel training classes will be held on April 23rd and 24th 2008. The number of participants per course will be from 5 (minimum) to about 20 (maximum). Staff from PTV-Karlsruhe (Germany), PTV-America, PTV-UK and Faber Maunsell will run the courses, possibly with more than 1 trainer per session. The 6 classes are:
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Day 1 (April 23 2008) |
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9:30 to 17:00 (sw installation from 8:30) |
Imperial College London:
Skempton Building, Room 207 ( map ) |
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Basic network modeling, priorities, link-based flows, fixed time signals, public transport, evaluations (delays, queues, travel times, etc.). UPDATE-080414: Fully booked. |
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Day 1 (April 23 2008) |
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9:30 to 17:00 (sw installation from 8:30) |
Imperial College London:
Skempton Building, Room 208 ( map ) |
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Network editing; introduction to various assignment methods, post-assignment analysis, basics of demand modeling, interface with VISSIM. |
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Day 2 (April 24 2008) |
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9:30 to 17:00 (sw installation from 8:30) |
Imperial College London:
Skempton Building, Room 208 ( map ) |
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Dynamic assignment, COM interface, V3DM (to generate 3D models for VISSIM), pedestrian modelling. |
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Day 2 (April 24 2008) |
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9:30 to 17:00 (sw installation from 8:30) |
Imperial College London:
Skempton Building, Room 207 ( map ) |
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Expert problems, auditing, VAP/VISVAP applied to signal design, on-street parking, partial routes, conflict areas, parking guidance, data analyser. |
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Day 2 (April 24 2008) |
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9:30 to 17:00 (sw installation from 8:30) |
Imperial College London:
Skempton Building, Room 609 ( map ) |
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Interface with VISSIM, basic junction modelling, 4-stage approach, public transport operations. |
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Day 2 (April 24 2008) |
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9:30 to 17:00 (sw installation from 8:30) |
Imperial College London:
Skempton Building, Room 610 ( map ) |
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Advanced junction modelling (nodes and main nodes), ICA (Intersection Capacity Analysis), scripting (code) in support of junction modelling. |
Participants will need to bring their own laptops (basic specifications can be found here ), although no VISSIM/VISUM licence is required.
If you cannot book your chosen course because the entry in the booking form on the internet is not available anymore, please don't hesitate to contact us anyway as often places free up before the event.
To cover costs, the charge is £ 180 for the Training (£ 120 for students, including PHDs). Bookings will be made on a first-come-first-served basis.
User Group Meeting
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Day 3 (April 25 2008) |
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9:15 to 17:00 (registration from 8:30) |
Imperial College London: Room 342 of Mechanical Engineering (building 29 in this map) |
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UPDATE-080415: The leaflet is available here . UPDATE-080415: The programme is available here . UPDATE-080410: The abstracts are available here . UPDATE-080430: The presentations (password protected) are now available here . |
8th UK PTV Vision User Group MeetingWe calculate that to cover the costs of the User Group Meeting, that include lunch, refreshments and documentation, a fee of £ 180 will be required (£ 100 for students/PHDs and presenters, first author). The maximum number of participants is set to 100.
How to become a presenter at the UK PTV Vision User Group Meeting
Presentations are invited from a variety of working backgrounds, be they consultancies, public sector or University. If you have applied VISSIM or VISUM (or tools linked to those) to any problem that could be of interest to oupdate ther participants, please get in touch.We will need to have a title accompanied by an abstract of 200-300 words by March 21st 2008. Presenters should then submit their papers and/or handout slides by April 9th 2008.
The compliance with these deadlines will enable us to prepare the documentation to be circulated at the User Group Meeting well in advance (papers and/or handout slides not received on time might not be part of the proceedings and/or excluded from the programme). Presentations will last 15-25 minutes, with some time for questions at the end.
Social event
A social event will be organized on the evening of April 24th in London. Please let us know if you wish to participate through the entry on the booking form. We ask those attending to register because we need to secure the place. We expect to pay in the range of 25-30 pounds. UPDATE-080407: Booked Cross Keys restaurant. It is about 20-minute walk from Imperial College London. A map is available hereHow to book a place (User Group Meeting and/or Training)
Please either use the following online form (link to be discontinued after the event) or fax a completed registration form to PTV, Market Development at: +49/721/9651-562.Special requirements such as, for example, 'vegetarian meal', 'allergy to nuts' or 'wish to learn how to model road user charging' should be noted in the remarks field.
An invoice will be sent to you by email upon registration. Should you not be able to pay by the deadline of (UPDATE-080404: extended deadline bookings) April 18th 2008, please bring either cash or a cheque made payable to "PTV AG" at the venue.
Cancellation policy:
Should the minimum number of participants not be reached for the training courses PTV has the right to cancel 7 days from the starting date. Should a participant wish to cancel no fees are incurred up to 15 days from the event. 20% of the fee will be charged if a cancellation is notified from 14 to 5 days from the event. The full fee will be charged for cancellations within 4 days of the event. A substitute can take up the place instead at no extra cost.
Location/Times
The event will take place at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine - Exhibition Road - London SW7 2BU (map ).
The training (April 23rd-24th) will be held in the Skempton Building (building 28 in this map). The 6 classes, whose indicative times to start-finish are 9:30 to 17:00 (please arrive between 8:30 and 9:00 for registration / installation of the software) are allocated as described in the training section above.
The User Group Meeting (April 25th) instead will be held as described in the section above. Please note (UPDATE-080415) that the venue has changed from Skempton Building to room 342 of Mechanical Engineering, across the road (building 29 in this map or this map), entrance from the Tanaka Business School of Exibition Road. It is the same venue of the 6th UK User Group Meeting, June 2006, a few hundred metres from Skempton. Indicative times to start-finish are 9:15 to 17:00 (registration opens at 8:30).
Directions
If travelling by metro from King’s Cross St. Pancras, the Piccadilly line can be used to get to South Kensington, which is about 500 m from Imperial College. This trip requires about 40 minutes (see this map for more details).Car Parks
If parking in the vicinity of the event is required, the contact details for the closest National Car Parks are as follows:- London and Country Car Parks (T) 0207 581 3371; 396 Kingston House North, Princes Gate, SW7
- Royal Garden Hotel Car Park (T) 020 7938 1101; Kensington High Street
- NJA Limited (T) 020 7589 9815; 244 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
Hotels
Details of hotels can be found here: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7].Contacts
- PTV Newcastle: Sergio Grosso (Info@ptv-newcastle.co.uk); 1, Abbotsford Terrace – Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 3AD, UK tel.: +44 (0) 787 9442480; fax: +44 (0) 191 2814356
- PTV AG: Agathe Kominek ( Agathe.Kominek@ptv.de;) tel: +49 (0) 721 9651 332; fax: +49 (0) 721 9651 562
- Faber Maunsell: Andy McGregor (Andy.McGregor@fabermaunsell.com); tel.: +44 (0) 131 311 4000; fax: +44 (0) 131 311 4090.
Major updates to this page
UPDATE-080404: Extended deadline bookings to April 18th.
UPDATE-080407: Booked Cross Keys restaurant.
UPDATE-080410: Abstracts are available.
UPDATE-080414: VISSIM beginners (April 23) is fully booked.
UPDATE-080415: A draft programme is available.
UPDATE-080415: Swapped rooms between VISSIM advanced 2 (now in room 207) and VISUM advanced 1 (now in room 609).
UPDATE-080415: User Group Meeting to be held in room 342 of Mechanical Engineering.
UPDATE-080415: The leaflet is available.
UPDATE-080430: The presentations from this year's UGM are now available on the web site (password protected).
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