The primary advantage is that Cube provides a gateway that allows the user to take data from any source and link it to the microsimulation. Agencies have invested so much in creating GIS databases. Now that data can be used to expedite the simulation process. Data from other data sources, files, traffic and planning programs can be accessed and used for simulation.
The other Cube functional libraries can be utilized to perform many types of analysis creating input data for the simulation as well as processing simulation output to be used for mapping or input into another process. This integration provides a complete transportation software solution.
The Cube suite provides an entire set of tools which previously had not been available as an integrated software suite. These additional tools provide very straightforward methods of:
- Creating GIS based maps of simulation results
- Smoothing traffic count data
- Forecasting traffic count data
- Calculating realistic traffic flows to be generated by new developments
- Quickly running deterministic analyses across entire networks
- Comparing simulation results across scenarios
- Estimating origin-destination matrices from traffic counts and origin-destination surveys
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