OpenPaths 2024 Webinar Series

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Webinar Sessions

Part 1. Evolving Activity Based Models with OpenPaths​

Today, cities are experiencing generational changes to travel behavior and mobility patterns. As a result, transport modelers need to adapt, upgrade, and recalibrate existing travel models. In this webinar, you’ll get to know OpenPaths and learn how it can help answer your transport planning what-if questions with new capabilities and more efficient workflows for modeling, forecasting, and analyzing. You’ll also see how WSP is using OpenPaths to help their clients evolve travel demand models to activity-based models (ABMs).

What you will learn:

  • How OpenPaths brings together Bentley’s multimodal transport planning software applications, including EMME, CUBE, AGENT and DYNAMEQ, and introduces exciting new features for harmonized travel demand modeling.

  • How WSP is using OpenPaths to:
    • Implement ABMs around the world;
    • Increase model transparency;
    • Test new model structures faster than before;
    • Save time and work with automated model calibration tools;
    • Enhance user experience and runtimes
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Part 1. Evolving Activity Based Models with OpenPaths​

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Mausam Duggal

National Director, Transportation Planning and Science​
WSP Canada

Mausam oversees a team of 100 professionals, including planners and engineers that specialize in transportation planning services across Canada. With 17 years of progressive experience in technical, management, and leadership roles with a focus in travel demand modeling, machine learning, transportation master planning, freight modelling, and policy analytics.

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Brian Cheung

Demand Modelling and Data Science CoE Co-Lead
WSP Canada

Brian Cheung is a Project Manager/Senior Civil Engineer at WSP Canada with over 12 years of experience in the transportation planning industry. He co-leads the Travel Demand Modelling and Data Science Centre of Excellence group within WSP Canada’s Transportation Planning and Science practice. He has a wealth of experience developing travel demand forecasting models – particularly activity-based models – with different software platforms across Canada and internationally.

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Daniel Florian

Senior Director, Mobility Simulation
Bentley Systems

Daniel Florian is a Senior Director at Bentley Systems where he is responsible for mobility simulation and analytics products and makes active contributions to the OpenPaths multimodal transport planning products. He has over twenty years of technical and application expertise in multimodal network modelling and transportation forecasting applications and regularly engages with users on a variety of modeling and technical matters. Daniel completed his master's degree at MIT where he held a research position at the Intelligent Transportation Systems lab.

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Gaurav Vyas

Product Manager II
Bentley Systems

Gaurav Vyas is Product Manager for the OpenPaths AGENT travel demand modeling platform at Bentley Systems. Gaurav's areas of analytical expertise include estimation of econometric models, data analysis and travel behavior research. He has experience in modeling intra-household interactions, implementation of discrete choice models, modeling Autonomous Vehicles in the regional travel modeling context, and in the generation of synthetic populations to support travel demand modeling. ​

Part 2. Transforming Urban Mobility in Our Cities: A Case Study from Milan

Urban areas around the world are struggling with increasing population densities, environmental concerns, and the need for sustainable growth. These issues are placing immense pressure on existing transportation infrastructures, demanding innovative solutions and proactive strategies to create efficient, accessible, and eco-friendly transit systems. 

Milan’s Agency for Mobility and Environment (AMAT) specializes in strategic planning and technical studies in mobility, decarbonization, energy efficiency, urban planning, and regeneration. In collaboration with citiEU, experts in transport modeling and forecasting, the team will reveal how they planned for, and achieved, positive sustainable outcomes for the city and the people living, working, and visiting Milan. 

Join them for a live webinar and learn how you can build a city’s digital twin to analyze the effects of new projects and policies on a city’s transportation network, land use, and its population. 

What you will learn​:

  • Who is AMAT?
  • The history and evolution of the transport model for Milan.
  • Real-life applications in urban areas.
  • Future developments of the transport model and how they can be applied to achieve sustainability objectives.
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Part 2. Transforming Urban Mobility in Our Cities: A Case Study from Milan

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Alberto Brignone

Director
citiEU and citiME

Graduated in February 1998 from the Polytechnic of Milan, Alberto began his profession as a consultant in the field of transport engineering. In 2009 he co-founded the consultancy and services company citiEU Consultancy LTD and in 2015 he co-founded the company citiME Consultancy LLC. With over 20 years of experience in the sector of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering, Alberto has specialised in various sectors: Development of large-scale demand models (Urban, National, International Multimodal Models), Traffic Engineering (with particular attention to microscopic dynamic simulation), training in the use of specialist software (in particular the “Cube” products developed by Bentley Systems). He has recently dedicated himself to the topics of "big data" and their use in the field of traffic and transport engineering with particular focus on the products of TomTom (GPS-derived data) and Teralytics (mobile-derived data).

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Stefano Sgarbossa

Senior Modeller
Agency for Mobility and Environment (AMAT)

Graduated in April 2005 in Civil – Transport Engineering from Polytechnic of Milan, he has more than 15 years of experience as Transport planner with civil engineering background and understanding of both transportation modelling and urban planning principles. Stefano began his profession as a consultant in the field of transport engineering, dealing with transport planning, macro and micro traffic simulations and optimization of road network operation. Previously he worked for One-Works (Milan) and the Municipality of Sesto San Giovanni. 

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Marios Ntaflos

Product Sales Engineer, Mobility Simulation
Bentley Systems

Marios’ work as a Senior Consultant at Jacobs, one of the industry’s most admired companies, has given him unique insight into what is needed in terms of transportation planning, engineering, land-use and pedestrian modelling of complex infrastructure projects both in the UK and in UAE. ​
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At his current role, Marios supports engineers and architects in EMEA and Americas to discover and implement digital solutions to meet their project needs and make better decisions with Bentley’s Mobility Simulation tools: OpenPaths and LEGION
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Marios holds a MEng in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). He has also studied Transportation and Logistics at Technical University of Delft (Netherlands). ​