Under the Hood: From Airports to Intersections, Using Mobility Simulation to Improve Multi-Modal Traffic Flows

Every month, an Autodesk expert gets technical and provides an overview of the AEC Collection’s most powerful workflows. Read on to learn how you can simulate pedestrian and vehicular traffic flows using Mobility Simulation, an integrated multi-modal simulation engine for InfraWorks. The United Nations predicts that by 2050, 2.5 billion more people will live in the world’s cities and urban centers, and they will drive 2.9 billion additional vehicles. With two out of three people on the planet getting around cities on foot, bicycle, car, bus or train, the potential for commerce-crushing congestion and gridlock will be at an all-time high. Today’s challenge is to design and build infrastructure that promotes both safety and mobility during a period of rapid population growth. Luckily, designers and project planners can get unprecedented insight into these challenges with mobility simulations. Mobility simulations model how people and vehicles move around in a transportation network….

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