Accurately inform real world transport planning decisions
Test the impacts and interactions between transport networks and travel demand to evaluate and forecast mobility, develop effective transport strategies and help plan the efficient and sustainable movement of people through your city or region.
WHAT IS EMME?
EMME is a complete transportation forecasting system for planning the urban, regional and national movement of people. EMME is used to create digital transport models for travel demand forecasting, traffic planning, transit service planning, and related applications to provide an evidence-base for transport strategy and policy decision-making. By modeling the people, places, processes, and options involved in travel, transport planners can evaluate transport system performance on any number of virtual scenarios prior to implementation. EMME powers some of the world’s most demanding transport models with trusted algorithms and rigorous procedures.
- Leading transport network models
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- Highly regarded traffic, public transit and multimodal network modeling procedures are trusted by leading transport agencies
- Uniquely flexible models may be tailored to support local application or new model procedures
- Includes out-of-the-box support for crowded transit, fare integration, tolling, junction delay, active transport and service planning applications
- Advanced travel demand modeling
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- Assemble virtually any travel demand model structure (aggregate or disaggregate) including activity-based (ABM), tour-based, hybrid and trip-based models
- Upgrade your demand model with improved usability, performance and advanced features like automated calibration without the high costs of re-coding or changing platform
- Simplify demand model management with an easy-to-use interface that anyone on the team can use, or integrate with third-party tools via API
- Accelerate productivity
- Extensible maps, charts, reports and scenario comparisons provide data transparency and help turn results into insights
- Code-free AND code-friendly. Easily configure model procedures with a visual control flow system that anyone on the team can use, or customize procedures and manage model-as-code with comprehensive Python APIs for developers
- Houses all your mobility data including multimodal networks, travel demand, surveys, demographics and travel results including households, persons, trips and tours
- Create 3D animations across time or between planning scenarios to understand regional mobility patterns at-scale or playback time-based models
- Highly regarded traffic, public transit and multimodal network modeling procedures are trusted by leading transport agencies
- Uniquely flexible models may be tailored to support local application or new model procedures
- Includes out-of-the-box support for crowded transit, fare integration, tolling, junction delay, active transport and service planning applications
- Assemble virtually any travel demand model structure (aggregate or disaggregate) including activity-based (ABM), tour-based, hybrid and trip-based models
- Upgrade your demand model with improved usability, performance and advanced features like automated calibration without the high costs of re-coding or changing platform
- Simplify demand model management with an easy-to-use interface that anyone on the team can use, or integrate with third-party tools via API
- Extensible maps, charts, reports and scenario comparisons provide data transparency and help turn results into insights
- Code-free AND code-friendly. Easily configure model procedures with a visual control flow system that anyone on the team can use, or customize procedures and manage model-as-code with comprehensive Python APIs for developers
- Houses all your mobility data including multimodal networks, travel demand, surveys, demographics and travel results including households, persons, trips and tours
- Create 3D animations across time or between planning scenarios to understand regional mobility patterns at-scale or playback time-based models
EMME Software Resources
Frequently Asked Questions
EMME is software for multimodal transport planning. It is a complete transportation forecasting system for planning the urban, regional and national transportation of people. EMME is used to implement mobility models which allow planners a virtual laboratory in which to test the impacts and interactions of transport policy, demographics and urban geography on available transport infrastructure including roads, traffic, public transit, fares and other modes of travel. By modelling the people, places, processes and options involved in travel, transport planners can forecast transport system performance, accessibility and equity, and evaluate any number of virtual scenarios or interventions to better inform real world planning decisions.
Common applications include:
- Travel demand forecasting
- Traffic planning
- Transit planning
- Economic analysis
- Environmental analysis
- Pedestrian, bike and active transport planning
Every day, professionals around the world use EMME to evaluate the transport infrastructure and policy that affects us all. EMME is used in metropolitan planning organizations, state and provincial transportation agencies, toll road operators and transit agencies, national and international organizations, special events consortia and engineering and planning consultancies.
AGENT Add-on enables use of the AGENT travel demand modeling platform within EMME. To use AGENT, you’ll need to have both EMME and AGENT Add-on entitlements, and you’ll need to configure the EMME feature level by following the instructions available in the Help documentation article at Emme Help->Installing, Authorizing and Starting EMME->Activate EMME licenses->Setting feature level to activate AGENT. Once this is done, it will be possible to start the AGENT user interface and call into the AGENT API. AGENT features and functionality are described above.
EMME is a prerequisite for AGENT Add-on.
The price of EMME varies per region. While there are various types of licensing available, a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Bentley’s eStore. When you purchase through the eStore you get a Virtuoso Subscription which means you get the software AND the training, expert services, and custom mentoring you need to get started quickly.
No. The AGENT Add-on Virtuosity Subscription will only work with an EMME Virtuosity Subscription. It will not entitle AGENT with EMME perpetual licenses. If you would like to use the AGENT Add-on with EMME perpetual licenses, please contact us.
Operating System
64-bit Microsoft Windows 11, 10, Server 2022, Server 2019, or Server 2016 Operating Systems.
Minimum disk space
3GB for installation files
RAM
Minimum 16GB RAM recommended
Graphics
Use of EMME Scenes features require OpenGL 4.0 support
Browser
Recent versions of Chrome or Firefox are recommended. Up to date versions of Opera and Edge may also work.
Reference Systems: EMME offers high-performance scientific, graphics and interactive computing capabilities. Certain EMME features benefit from high-performance computing (CPUs) and dedicated graphics processors (GPUs). Requirements vary by application. Reference systems below provide illustrative guidelines:
Base system example
- Intel Core i5 or i7 CPU, 2.3 GHz or greater base clock
- 6 cores / 12 threads or more
- 16 GB RAM or more
- NVIDIA RTX 3050, AMD Radeon, Intel Xe or Intel integrated graphics (non-graphic workloads)
Intermediate systems
- Intel Core i7 or i9 CPU, 3 GHz or greater base clock
- 8 cores / 16 threads or more
- 32GB of RAM or more
- NVIDIA RTX 3060, AMD Radeon RX 6600XT, Intel Arc A770 or integrated graphics (non-graphic workloads)
Advanced systems
- Intel Xeon CPU, 3GHz or greater base clock
- 12 cores / 24 threads or more
128GB RAM or more - NVIDIA RTX 3070, NVIDIA Quadro RTX, AMD Radeon Pro W6000, or integrated graphics (non-graphic workloads)
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