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LinSig
Summary
LinSig is software by JCT Consultancy which allows traffic engineers to model traffic signals and their effect on traffic capacities and queuing. As well as modelling the effects of traffic signals LinSig also optimises signal timings to reduce delay or increase capacity at a junction or group of interlinked junctions.
LinSig was developed in the UK by Brian Simmonite in the 1980s who went on to set up JCT Consultancy. The software has been updated a number of times during its life.
LinSig was first written in the mid-1980s as a DOS-based tool for analysing and optimising single traffic signal junctions. The use of the software spread mainly by word of mouth within the traffic signals profession becoming widely used by signal engineers. The LinSig traffic modelling was based on standard 'Y' value hand calculations which were widely used at the time for manually calculating traffic signal capacities and delays. This allowed the results of the software to be easily checked against existing manual calculations.
LinSig for Windows Version 1 retained the same modelling capabilities as the earlier DOS versions but provided a Windows interface. This version also introduced graphical diagrams into the software showing information such as the junction's lane layout and the phasing and staging arrangements.
LinSig Version 2 was the first version of LinSig to allow the modelling of more than one junction. A new network traffic model was introduced which allows the coordination of closely spaced traffic signal junctions to be modelled.
LinSig 3 changed from a link-based model to a lane-based model. It also allowed the user to model larger networks and provides new network modelling tools such as delay-based traffic assignment and entropy-based trip matrix estimation. Using this software it is possible to model signalised roundabouts.
LinSig uses a development of the Cyclic Flow Profile traffic model which has been used extensively in the UK for many years.
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