TRANUS: Integrated Land Use and Transport Model

TRANUS is an integrated land use and transport modeling package. The system combines a state-of-the-art model of activities location and interaction, land use and the real estate market, with a comprehensive multimodal transport model. The combination of these two models produces the highest benefits, but the transport model may be used as a stand-alone component, especially for short-term projections. 

The main characteristics of the modeling system are:

• Very flexible activities location and land use model, applicable to a wide range of scales and contexts

• Transport model to represent both passengers and freight movements and multiple interacting modes (intermodality)

• Probabilistic logit combined modal split and assignment procedure, exclusive of the TRANUS model

• Detailed and effective representation of the public transport system, with multiple transfers, waiting times, integrated fares, etc.

• Economic, financial and environmental evaluation

• Powerful graphic interface with an intelligent database (object-oriented) and capable of dealing with multiple scenarios. Fully integrated with QGIS.

• Applicable to any scale, from detailed urban level to regional and national models

• Long-term projections for strategic studies

• Very detailed short-term projections

• Completely free and open-source. Easy installation from QGIS, also a free and open-source software