Aimsun shifts focus from software delivery to outcome-based solutions
Aimsun, an international digital mobility solutions provider for transportation authorities, highway agencies, transport operators and consultancies says the release of five standard digital mobility solutions marks a shift in its focus from software delivery to outcome-based solutions.
“The transition to solutions is a natural progression for Aimsun,” says CEO, Alex Torday. “Our original mobility modelling software remains at the heart of what we do, but by taking an outcome-based perspective, we can leverage our expertise to go beyond pure software delivery and offer a more complete service.
“It is clear to us that we can fulfil an industry need, which is to provide end-to-end transportation modeling services,” he affirms. “Our all-in-one approach goes beyond the tools and capabilities currently in use by many transport authorities, highway agencies, public transport operators or consultancies. The new suite of solutions will allow customers to plan and manage networks for all travel modes across a metropolitan area, or even an entire region, in a way that is fast, efficient, and cost-effective. We’ve seen the success of our existing Aimsun Live solution and it has inspired us to provide greater breadth and depth to our services and apply them across more of the typical industry use cases.”
Historically, transport planner and operators have used a broad range of disparate tools, which can be costly to maintain and prone to inconsistencies. Aimsun’s solutions are built on a single platform which it says can adapt to almost any application, from assessing the operational benefits of priority-based traffic management at a vehicle-by-vehicle level to analysing how a city-wide environmental transportation policy might affect emissions. A single foundation, it maintains, means that the solutions are seamlessly scalable and can easily be adapted to changing customer scopes, budgets, and timescales.
With its outcome-based approach, Aimsun says it is addressing “common pain points” in the digital mobility industry such as speeding up turnaround time, providing better output consistency and lowering the cost allocated to create project-specific outcomes.
In line with its customer-centric approach, all the solutions include a web-based user interface for non-technical users. This user-friendly dashboard allows multiple stakeholders to access the platform, ask relevant questions, and visualise answers using custom KPIs or management metrics.
Access for non-technical users, says Aimsun, is a key factor on large mobility projects with multiple stakeholders, where a platform or hub for collaboration not only increases stakeholder engagement but also the efficiency of decision-making.