What is Bentley OpenPaths Patterns?
Bentley OpenPaths Patterns is a web-based mobility data and analytics application for transportation analysts to harness the power of big-data for better decision-making. With Bentley OpenPaths Patterns, you can mine travel mobility data to understand where, when, and how people travel anywhere in the United States.
Bentley OpenPaths Patterns makes transportation planning and traffic engineering analyses fast and efficient. It enables agencies to directly analyze and comprehend mobility data, while also facilitating data exports for further external analysis via travel demand models, traffic simulations, or other mobility analysis tools.
Bentley OpenPaths Patterns has a broad range of use cases, including:
- Travel demand modeling and calibration
- Corridor studies
- Highway performance management
- VMT calculations
- Traffic simulation
- Traffic impact studies
- Tollway usage
Bentley OpenPaths Patterns
Key Features
- Access maps and data from any web browser
- Run analytics such as select-link and corridor analysis
- Generate subarea data extracts
- Import custom zone systems
- Identify and export data
Key Features
Interactive Maps
Inspect and filter origin-destination travel flows and traffic volumes across multiple dimensions, such as trip purpose, time of day, and day type.
Datasets
Advanced Analytics
Compute mobility analytics to answer the most common transportation and traffic engineering questions including select-link and select-zone analysis, corridor discovery and road VMT statistics.
Easy Exports
Save data for local use in standard text and GIS formats using easy-to-use export tools.
Improved Transparency
Ensure confidence and context for your decision-making with clear data quality reports, including the most common goodness of fit statistics for your region.
Data-driven planning
Bentley OpenPaths Patterns provides intuitive access to nationwide movement data in the form of current and historic traffic volumes, origin/destination data, and trips by purpose and day of week and time of day.
- Data-driven: Detailed insights into traffic patterns on the fly, supporting evidence-based decision-making for transportation planning, infrastructure investment, and policy development.
- Time- and location-based: Data visualization and analysis tools enable planners to gain a comprehensive look into how and where people are traveling. Access to movement data throughout and across regions and for specific time periods allows planners to quickly isolate, understand, and quantify infrastructure demand.
- Enhanced efficiency: Provides instant access to data, avoids costly data collection and processing, and delivers readily consumable data to analysts, travel modelers, and GIS practitioners.
How Bentley OpenPaths Patterns Works
Bentley OpenPaths Patterns translates the movement of billions of GPS readings from anonymized mobile devices into logical travel patterns. The data is then aggregated, processed, and scaled using a wide range of additional data sources which are indicators or measures of human activity, such as population, household demographics, traffic counts, special trip generators, and travel behavior surveys.
The result is a representative dataset of vehicle trips, traffic volumes, and travel routes, which include important data attributes. A web application makes working with large amounts of movement data practical.
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FAQs
No! Bentley OpenPaths Patterns runs in your web browser with a growing set of native mobility analytics tools, and provides exportable data which can be ingested into other modeling or analysis frameworks.
Bentley OpenPaths Patterns provides origin-destination (O-D) movements, traffic volumes, and travel routes throughout the United States, as well as tools to query and filter the data to understand daily travel patterns. Data is available for 2019, 2022, and 2023, with planned ongoing data releases.
Bentley OpenPaths Patterns supports modeling workflows by providing data about the magnitude, purpose, time of day, and location of travel to support model calibration, validation and related workflows. The data is also a good source of external movements, including internal-external, external-internal, and external-external travel.
Bentley OpenPaths Patterns provides data to support the following model workflows*:
- Validate existing models using Bentley OpenPaths Patterns traffic volumes
- Use Bentley OpenPaths Patterns O-D data as base-year traffic demand matrices
- Assign base-year O-D traffic demand
- Calibrate models using O-D traffic demand and volumes**
- Use O-D traffic demand matrices for matrix adjustment/estimation (ODME) procedures
* All of the above capabilities are possible with Bentley OpenPaths or suitable third-party multimodal transport planning software.
**Automated model calibration capabilities are available with Bentley OpenPaths Ultimate.
