1. School of Civil Engineering
Highway Traffic and Safety Analyses
Lecture 14: HCS and SYNCHRO (1)
Purdue University
School of Civil Engineering
West Lafayette

2. HCS Example

3. SYNCHRO
Capabilities
Optimizes isolated signals and coordinated signalized networks of streets
Pre-timed, semi-actuated, and full-actuated controllers
Export of the input data to SIMTRAFFIC, CORSIM, TRANSYT, and HCS
Convenient user interface

4. SYNCHRO Open the two ring.sy6 file SYNCHRO
Add two more links with one intersection
Delete the added node
Show the link parameters
Show the link window
Show the volume window
Show the control window
Import a background image with scaling

5. SYNCHRO Editing Streets and Nodes
Drawing links
Curved links, bend nodes
Link parameters
Signalized nodes
Setting geometry parameters
Adding traffic data
Setting control at AWSC
Running simulation in SimTraffic