Comprehensive Planning
TRACKS
TRACKS is a suite of some sixty programs which have been developed by Transportation and Traffic Systems Ltd to assist the analysis and interpretation of land use and transport planning problems.
The urban planner and the transportation planner make use of models to rationalise a complex set of factors which are influencing a system, and to assist in assessing the response of that system to change. The TRACKS system has been developed in order to assist with this analysis in a way that is easy to use while providing useful results.
The three key components that are used in the disciplines of land use and transportation planning are:
- The location and intensity of land uses
- The transport system that links these activities
- The behaviour of the people who use the system
TRACKS has been formulated to recognise the essential difference between a model and software. All parameters and data that make up a model are external to the software and can be changed by the user although standard default values are supplied, and may be used, if required. Only the techniques are program specific, but there are enough programs available, and options within those programs, for an appropriate choice of model to be made for any given situation.
