By the time you read this, most EMME/2 sites should already have obtained release 3.0 of the EMME/2 software. The new release is again packed with many new features and innovative enhancements. Some of the major additions are described in more detail in this issue of EMME/2 News.
Those of you who attended the EMME/2 Users' Group Meeting in Portland last October, will find that this issue of EMME/2 News contains some of the same material found in the handout that was distributed at the meeting.
Heinz Spiess, Editor
EMME/2 Support Center
Haldenstrasse 16
CH-2558 Aegerten
Switzerland
tel: (41) 32 53 20 57
Most of this issue of EMME/2 News is dedicated to the description of the major developments that have been included in Release 3.0 of the EMME/2 system. The new features include our responses to suggestions made by the ever growing community of EMME/2 users. As before, new powerful and flexible tools are made available, that may be used in more ways than one to model and analyze transportaion planning issues. However, our list of additions, enhancements and improvements is far from exhausted and I am sure that future issues of EMME/2 News will announce developments that are as exciting as those of Release 3.0.
Software development is not our only concern. We are continuously striving to adapt the EMME/2 code for use on different processors, always adhering to our policy of providing functionally identical versions of the code, whether the processor used is an Intel 80286 or that of a VAX or IBM mainframe computer. The new Intel version of EMME/2 is an evidence of our efforts to bring the power and flexibility of EMME/2 within the reach of smaller organizations and communities and the 1200 zone DSI-780 version is an evidence of our efforts to bring mainframe applications to the personal computer user.
Last, but not least, a word about the EMME/2 users. As our policy does not restrict the use of EMME/2 to the organization that purchases the licence, but only to the processor used, we are finding that an installation may be used by four or five cities or counties in a region, such as in Vancouver, Portland , Montreal and Stockholm. We are delighted to see these developments as they reinforce the acceptance of EMME/2 as a powerful, flexible and productive transportation planning method.
I hope to meet most of you at the next EMME/2 Users' Group Meeting in Ottawa.
Michael Florian, President
INRO Consultants, Inc.
4950 Queen Mary Rd. #100
Montreal, Que H3W 1X3
Canada
Tel (514) 738-8336