Agent-based planning for urban transport infrastructure
goNEON Plans New Infrastructure
Positioning of new infrastructure elements within the existing road space, e.g. bus stops (white boxes). Photo: OpenStreetMap, Analysis goNEON
Urban transport infrastructure is complex to plan, time-consuming to evaluate and often difficult to communicate to decision-makers and customers. Infrastructure providers are often faced with the challenge of having to demonstrate in a short space of time how their solutions fit into real urban environments. This is where goNEON comes in as a suitable solution.
The agent-based planning system from goNEON generates compliant infrastructure scenarios from a simple enquiry. Instead of investing months in feasibility studies or conceptual designs, it takes only minutes for operators and suppliers to test possible variants for implementation.
With this agent-based tool for planning, sales and implementation, a completely new field of application is opening up for the rail and urban mobility industry. Manufacturers and infrastructure providers can use the system to quickly check where and how their products can be used in real urban areas. Providers of tram networks, bicycle parking facilities, ticket machines or street-based mobility solutions can use it to simulate the integration of their systems into existing networks so that they can immediately present ready-to-implement scenarios to their customers.
The technology does not replace the planning processes, but complements the early phase of infrastructure development and procurement. It enables providers to move from generic product presentations to spatially localised proposals. These show directly how a solution works in a specific urban context.
This approach is already being used successfully in pilot projects in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom and the USA. In these projects, the system processes real spatial data, regulations and infrastructure restrictions in order to generate valid planning options. This opens up a new perspective for the global mobility industry, with planning systems no longer being exclusive tools for engineering offices and authorities but acting as an intelligent interface between infrastructure providers and the urban spaces in which their solutions operate.
In view of the increasing complexity of infrastructure systems and a growing number of competing solutions, the ability to quickly test spatial deployment scenarios and communicate them in a convincing way is becoming ever more valuable. Agent-based planning systems will therefore play a key role in the next generation of mobility infrastructure development.
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