Advanced transportation planning functionality

Cube Base is the powerful and comprehensive user interface for all Cube modeling modules and extensions. Cube Base is used to design and apply the models and to edit and manage all input and output data.

Four components provide these capabilities:

GIS:
At the core of the GIS is an embedded version of ESRI’s market leading ArcGIS, known as ArcGIS Engine. Citilabs developed a specialized application of this technology for transportation modeling by adding transportation topology rules fully exploited within its geodatabase, and a large number of transportation-specific editing and analysis tools. The GIS in Cube is an extremely powerful transportation GIS system that is directly compliant with ESRI technologies and provides many of ArcGIS’s capabilities, for example, on-the fly projections.

Application Manager or ‘AM’:
This component is where the analyst designs and creates the model process. It has captured the hearts of manytransportation specialists with its flow-chart method. It makes model design and development an intuitive and even pleasurable experience.

Scenario Manager or ‘SM’:
Once the data have been put into place and checked using the GIS, and AM can be used to design and develop the model stream, it is time to use SM to apply the model. SM comes with tools to develop a user interface for the model. In fact, you can create many different user menus designed specifically for different types of users of the model. Expose all of the possibilities and complexities in the user menu for expert users and during model calibration, or create a simple user menu for non-specialists making the model easy to use. SM is where you can really take a complex model and make it as simple or complex as you like depending on the type of application and the experience and knowledge of the person using the model. SM is also where the analyst creates, manages and runs or batches their tests.

Design, Manage, and Deliver Reports
Travel forecasting models and traffic simulations are developed to test proposed changes to infrastructure and policy. Once created, these systems are applied many times testing sometimes hundreds of scenarios. With each application of the system, a large amount of numerical data is developed which needs to be analyzed and frequently compared across scenarios. Reports are designed to create high quality charts and tables of single or multiple scenarios in order to ease the analysis of the results and to convey the results to decisions makers and the general public.