Immense simulations
Local Authority: Traffic Management Planning
Local Authority: Traffic Management Planning
Details:
- Company: Immense simulations
- Client: Buckinghamshire County Council
- Year: 2024
- Region: England
Service areas:
- Plan-making, planning application and data management systems
- Digital twins
Introduction
Road closures and transport network disruptions frequently result in road users having to follow a diversion and additional pressure being placed on existing junctions, as well as potentially significant disruption to local stakeholders. The lmmense platform enables users to quantify the impacts caused by disruption scenarios and to test mitigation measures that could relieve them, providing the evidence-base for more informed intervention planning. As a trial of lmmense technology, and how it can support the development of Impact Assessment reports, Buckinghamshire Council used the Immense Platform to analyse two use cases, dealing with road closures and traffic management systems application.
Challenges
Temporary interventions to the road network can cause unforeseen transport impacts that even a deep knowledge of the area cannot always predict. Transport modelling tools can be costly and time consuming and the answers are not always suitable for the questions sought. Buckinghamshire Council tasked Immense with solving this challenge and providing:
• automatic generation of Impact Assessment reports that quantify the impacts caused by disruption scenarios
• the ability to test the mitigation measures that could relieve such impacts in order to provide the evidence base for more informed interventions planning
• facilitating engagement with users and utility services involved in the process
• a simple front end for skilled and non-skilled users
• automatic generation of Impact Assessment reports that quantify the impacts caused by disruption scenarios
• the ability to test the mitigation measures that could relieve such impacts in order to provide the evidence base for more informed interventions planning
• facilitating engagement with users and utility services involved in the process
• a simple front end for skilled and non-skilled users
Solutions
Immense’s platform enables users to quickly and easily assess the impacts of multiple interventions and alternative Traffic Management options, analysing a full 24hr “day in the life of” the network under different TM scenarios.
Develop effective traffic management plans.
Traffic simulation techniques developed by Immense allow for a realistic representation of the network state, enabling quantitative comparison of impacts of alternative intervention scenarios and identifying potential mitigation options.
Improve customer engagement.
The automated generation of output in a friendly format, tailored to expert and non-expert users, facilitates the engagement with users and utility services involved in the process.
Quicker, better planning.
Pulling together a wide range of information, the platform provides a picture of various impacts on the transport network, providing the evidence base for better prediction and planning.
The underpinning AWS cloud infrastructure enables quick analysis and comparison of transport options, as scenario runs take hours rather than days/weeks.
Develop effective traffic management plans.
Traffic simulation techniques developed by Immense allow for a realistic representation of the network state, enabling quantitative comparison of impacts of alternative intervention scenarios and identifying potential mitigation options.
Improve customer engagement.
The automated generation of output in a friendly format, tailored to expert and non-expert users, facilitates the engagement with users and utility services involved in the process.
Quicker, better planning.
Pulling together a wide range of information, the platform provides a picture of various impacts on the transport network, providing the evidence base for better prediction and planning.
The underpinning AWS cloud infrastructure enables quick analysis and comparison of transport options, as scenario runs take hours rather than days/weeks.
Results
Within hours, users were able to quantify the effects of the proposed interventions and the associated mitigation measures, providing the evidence-base for the stakeholder
engagement process for the delivery of schemes. The use of the Immense lnfraOps platform considerably reduced the time the Network Management team was able to make a swift decision about the type of TM plan to implement. This was done within hours compared to the weeks that it takes with conventional methods.
engagement process for the delivery of schemes. The use of the Immense lnfraOps platform considerably reduced the time the Network Management team was able to make a swift decision about the type of TM plan to implement. This was done within hours compared to the weeks that it takes with conventional methods.
Road works are part of our day to day lives, whether providing essential utility services to residents and businesses or improving the condition of roads. Immense allows us to better understand the impacts and opportunities to mitigate the effects of major works on our network, particularly within our larger towns.
Christine Urry
Head of Network Strategy and Management, Communities Directorate, Buckinghamshire Council