Another exciting and action-filled year comes soon to an end. More than any year before, 1991 was for me the year of the users group meetings. I am not just thinking of this year's Annual Users Conference in Pasadena, which was certainly the highlight of the year, but also of the many national and regional users group meetings in Rome, Pasadena, Helsinki, Basel, Los Angeles, Sydney and Auckland - each of them left me with lots of new ideas and fond memories of the wonderful people I met. Now I am already looking forward to the next event, the 1st European Conference in London.
As for now: Seasons Greetings and Best Wishes for 1992!
Heinz Spiess, Editor
EMME/2 Support Center
Haldenstrasse 16
CH-2558 Aegerten
Switzerland
tel: (41) 32 53 20 57
fax: (41) 32 53 57 86
Although Release 5.0 is still fresh off the development, testing and distribution stages, and possibly some of you have not yet used all its new features, the progress on enhancing EMME/2 has continued over the summer and during the fall. A new way of adding new features and capabilities to EMME/2 is in the form of macros which will be supported by INRO in their original form. In the "In the Works" column of this issue one can find news about the development of two macros: a macro for congested transit assignment, which was made possible by the new transit features of the network calculator, and the development of a macro which permits the increase of the dimensions of an EMME/2 data bank up to the limits permitted by the licence size. The first macro provides a transit assignment which is unique to EMME/2 and which will be extremely useful for transit services which operate near to or over capacity, such as is the case in some large cities in Europe and in the developing world. The second will facilitate the expansion of an existing data bank, a utility which will serve many users who were conservative in establishing the dimensions of a data bank at the beginning of a project.
Other developments which are worthy of mention are the new version of module 2.11 which has the long awaited d(elete) and m(odify) options and the porting of EMME/2 to run under SCO UNIX on Intel 386/486 PC's, which may be aptly referred to as workstations as the performance of an Intel 486/33 PC is in the same range as that of some well established UNIX workstations.
I would like to close by wishing you all a very productive New Year.
Michael Florian, President
INRO Consultants, Inc.
5160 Décarie Boulevard, Suite 610
Montréal, Qué H3X 2H9
Canada
tel: (514) 369-2023
fax: (514) 369-2026