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Track: Transportation, Logistics Planning
Robert Lussier
INRO Consultants, Inc.
5160 Decarte Blvd Suite 610
Montreal
Quebec, H3X 2H9
CANADA
Telephone: 514-369-2023
Fax: 514-369-2026
E-mail: robert@inro.ca
Jia Hao Wu
Development of a Data Exchange Protocol between EMME/2 and ArcInfo
Defining Issue: Sharing spatial information between a transportation planning software (like EMME/2) and a GIS is a complicated task in terms of data structure and informational needs. GIS Solution: INRO Consultants established guidelines to standardize the creation of a transportation planning coverage and developed a set of tools to transfer information between EMME/2 and ArcInfo. Methodology: We identify the motivation for the development of a data exchange procedure between ArcInfo and EMME/2. Then we identify the corresponding data items in ArcInfo and EMME/2, discuss the communication process for the data exchange and the computed results between the two systems, and develop a user-friendly interface to realize the data exchange. As a concrete example, we present a prototype of the system for the EMME/2 road and transit network, which can be used to display the attributes and results obtained in EMME/2. Future developments and possible applications of this system are discussed as
well. Software: The prototype application is composed of ArcInfo AMLs, EMME/2 macros, and AWK scripts.
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