Connell Wagner Pty Ltd
Engineering Consultant in Toowoomba

Smart transport modeling essential to Dubai’s future livability. Au recon brings ideas to life to design a better future. As a key piece of its awe inspiring vision to be a world leading smart and sustainable city, Dubai is developing a seamless and efficient transport network. Jokes aside, it’s a skillful reminder of the importance of modeling in engineering to ensure developments are the correct size for their purpose. What’s equally impressive is the Emirate’s drive to be one of the maximum technologically advanced places in the world. The technology should also lessen the complete number of vehicles on the road by encouraging healthy planned carpooling services and by enhancing Park Ride schemes, thus promoting improved share for public transport. One of our company’s maximum cherished contributions to this master plan is transportation demand modeling, showing how Dubai’s transport network will cope with changes in demography and day today usage over numerous years or even decades. modeling in Dubai brings its own unique challenges. The West’s large, developed areas make deriving data and extrapolating a plan reasonably straightforward. In contrast, there are currently around 2.3 million people in Dubai but the data from travel demand surveys is only available for about 1 of the population. Within the scope of the exercise, Dubai’s population is predicted to rise to 10 million and developments are being modeled for multiple scenarios. Consequently, the beginning and biggest defy in terms of modeling for Dubai is data scenario management. Therefore, the methodology has to be robust. While a seemingly sensible approach defining, modeling and tomorrow proofing such a system is a different matter altogether. One is the widespread use of strategic models for all levels of planning, right down to micro simulation when its strength is really in providing a massive picture’ view. In an ideal world, a project would use a combination of micro, memo and macro modeling types. For example, a 2013 strategic model might be impaired for planning signal timings and phasing for a road that will be used in 2030. To better analyses the data and create more accurate models for the transportation master plan for Dubai, Au recon developed its own technologies. The GI system integrates data from areas such as those being planned for coming projects existing surrounding and adjoining projects and land use (via a land use data conversion tool). This software is consistently applied to ensure the matrix is correctly adjusted. The origin, destination and internal trips for a specified zone are adjusted to bear sensible forecasts. Alongside this, Sensible Transportation Systems (ITS) and Smart Mobility Systems show us better ways to use technology and data to join people and places across all transport modes. But by using some of the most advanced modeling systems ever applied in infrastructure development, Au recon is ensuring that Dubai can visualize how the shape of its coming an unprecedented advance in terms of master planning. Or, to put it more simply, Au recon has engineered a solution for Dubai’s complex planning problem.