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Hello and goodbye from Utrecht! 🇳🇱 What a fun couple of days at POLIS! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth — we loved chatting with cities and partners, tackling traffic planning challenges, and showing how our digital twin solution keeps cities moving smarter.

In this issue, you will catch up on our newest updates, get an overview of new features in our PLAN software like Selected-Link Analysis, and learn more from a client case study in Torino.

We’ve rolled out a new version of PLAN with a refreshed interface, faster result loading, and a few behind-the-scenes fixes to make your daily work smoother. With Selected-Link Analysis, you can click any road segment to instantly see where vehicles are coming from and going to.

We developed a digital transportation twin, a powerful simulation platform that lets Geneva anticipate the impact of road closures and construction, uncover shifting traffic patterns, and predict potential bottlenecks before they even happen. Lukas Ambühl presents PLAN for Geneva in the RTS feature, alongside the city's AI-powered incident detection.

Just in time for Halloween: #Spinnenanalyse or Selected-Link Analysis has arrived in PLAN! Understand origins and destinations around any road segment, visualize flows, and uncover hidden traffic “webs”

In the research project AUFGEHTS funded by the German Ministry for Digital and Transport under the mFUND scheme, Transcality's Gladys Gan and Gabriel Tilg explored how to create and calibrate a mesoscopic traffic model using floating car data and open geodata, taking a corridor in Bayern and Tirol as our example.

This is our first Horizon Europe project within such a large consortium and we are excited about the activities to come and the research to be made. ✨ Through this collaboration, we will further enhance our tool PLAN, adding capabilities in logistics and emissions to provide our clients with better traffic simulation insights and roll out pilots across several European cities.

Transcality is one of the two winners of this year's Boost My Startup Challenge organized by UBS Growth Advisory and WSP in Switzerland.

As part of the AIAMO – Artificial Intelligence and Mobility Roadshow in Landau, we had the opportunity to showcase, together with SWARCO, how our solutions can make traffic management in MyCity smarter and more sustainable!

To help Torino plan urban mobility before it happens, we created a digital transportation twin that allows the city to test various “what-if” scenarios, supporting smarter, more integrated, and sustainable mobility decisions.

Proud to see our client, the Etat de Genève, highlighted in last week’s article, showing how our traffic simulation tool PLAN helps them be proactive and stay ahead of traffic challenges.

Before everyone heads off for a well-deserved break, we’re excited to share what’s new at Transcality. This month, we’re launching powerful new features like the Origin-Destination Visualizer and Network Editor, and we’re sharing key insights from our latest validation study using TomTom data - focused on the city of Geneva. And that’s not all!

With this new functionality, you can instantly see how traffic flows into, through, and out of different zones. It helps you uncover mobility patterns and how they change throughout the day.

We’re releasing the Network Editor, a new functionality in our digital twin simulation tool PLAN that lets you plan infrastructure changes directly on the map. Draw new roads, adjust existing ones, and instantly simulate the impact on traffic. Whether you’re testing extensions or redesigning your network, the Network Editor helps you explore scenarios quickly and iteratively before implementation.

How much sensor data is enough to build a reliable digital twin of a transport system? It’s a question we hear often from our clients. To help answer it, Anna Schönhärl ran an 80/20 cross-validation analysis using loop detector data from the city of Zurich.

In this issue, we’re excited to share key updates on our progress in traffic modeling and digital twins – and how we’re applying these in client projects with the Canton of Zurich and the World Economic Forum.

In this inaugural issue, we will share highlights of our journey this year, the advances we’re making in traffic modeling, and how we are helping cities and engineers tackle today’s transportation challenges.

Our CEO, Lukas Ambühl, contributed to Swiss television program SRF Einstein, discussing how digital twins can model the impact of automated vehicles on traffic congestion. You can watch the segment here, starting at minute 25.