Case studies

Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) is the largest construction company in the Middle East and ranks #18 internationally. CCC has offices and projects in over 40 countries, and a workforce of more than 130,000 employees. Just after contract signature of a site preparation project (earthmoving scope of approximately four million cubic meters), the client and local authorities placed new, more restrictive constraints on the operation. The newly placed constraints essentially meant that the project schedule will be severely impacted and with it the total cost to complete.

The NIH campus is huge and consists of many buildings, including 30 parking garages. Over 12,000 vehicles enter this campus on an average day, meaning that route optimization for road traffic and well-designed parking garages are essential to ensuring that this is an effectively run center. Mosimtec designed a model that would allow NIH to visualize the layout of road networks and parking garages as well as analyze data to plan their new parking garages and road networks to determine the best design for them.

In public transport, bus bunching refers to a group of two or more transit vehicles (such as buses or trains), which were scheduled to be evenly spaced running along the same route, instead running in the same location at the same time. Dave Sprogis, Volunteer Software Developer, and Data Analyst in Watertown, MA, used AnyLogic to confirm his thesis that preventing "Bus Bunching" would improve the experience of public transit bus riders.

SimPlan, a simulation and optimization service provider based in Germany, ran a project with the city of Hanau and Frankfurt University of Applied Science.They built models of municipal electric vehicle fleet operations. In the models, they considered two vehicle types: buses and garbage trucks (both conventional, battery- and fuel-cell-powered). SimPlan used simulation modeling because it can accurately forecast large-scale EV fleet tasks and assess their daily operation.

Bus bunching is a problem faced by transport authorities around the world. SimWell Inc., an industrial engineering company supporting business decisions with simulation, used simulation modeling for transportation system analysis to figure out the best solution to solve the bus bunching problem for RTC, the public transit agency for Quebec City, Canada.

Thungela had some challenges with their parking facility, which resulted in poor control and management of the flow of vehicles, pedestrians, and goods coming into the mining complex. This often led to criminal elements entering the mine as well as an increase in liability as private vehicles were driving through the mine. Thungela used simulation modeling to design a parking facility as a solution to these problems.

One of the SwRI's research areas is automated driving systems. Engineers decided to make autonomous vehicles free, not only from the driver, but also from a control center. According to this idea, vehicles would communicate in a distributed manner with each other, share information about their current location and environment, and make decisions on further actions based on this information themselves. This technology would primarily be used by military forces for the transportation of supplies to the fields of operation, demining, reconnaissance operations, and many other areas where humans...

A typical rush hour impedes the mobility of individual vehicles and significantly slows the overall flow of traffic. This phenomenon is compounded by events of mass mobilization, such as during an evacuation due to a hurricane or other event. ITS researchers sought to understand how public safety could be improved during such events by incorporating communication among a percentage of the vehicle population.

The Moscow subway station and transport interchange, Volokolamskaya, is situated in the northwest part of town. The main road traffic in the area comes from the neighboring districts and the suburban parts of the Moscow region. ITS Consulting was contracted to test the efficiency of the planned roadway network during the peak traffic hours (morning and evening) with due regard to perspective increases of traffic within a timeframe until 2025.

Sheremetyevo is Russia’s largest airport, with an annual passenger throughput of 40 million people. The airport infrastructure is constantly expanding. Passenger Terminal B is to be commissioned in 2018, and in 2020 and 2023 it will be integrated with Terminals C1 and C2 which are under construction. Additionally, a plan is underway to expand the car parking area at the station square. These changes are expected to help increase the airport capacity and reach an annual throughput of 52 million passengers by 2024.