Introduction

TransCAD is a transportation planning and analysis software developed by

Caliper Construction. It offers a variety of features, from analyzing to modeling
and visualizing transportation systems. It can be used for all modes of
transportation networks at any scale or level of detail. As it is highly sophisticated
and customizable, it allows the users to operate the software at their preference to
meet their specific needs. It is the only transportation software that fully integrates
GIS with demand and logistic functionality, allowing the models created to be
more accurate and efficient. Thus, TransCAD has become a powerful tool to help
users make more informed decisions regarding transportation.

Significance
TransCAD is the first and only powerful GIS, that was made with the sole
purpose of the usage of transportation engineers and professionals, to provide them
with capabilities such as store, display, manage and analyze transportation data.
Additionally it is a GIS that has been integrated with various transportation
modeling packages making it very efficient, this allows users to be able to analyze
data based on visualizations, this includes demand modeling and logistics
functionalities. Transportation modeling has allowed experts to be able to create
complex transportations systems and models, while being able to simulate and
forecast it under vast number of circumstances, while also taking into account
multimodal transportation, such as pedestrians, cycles, motors, and other vehicles,
in order for them to be able to come up with the best and most efficient solutions.