Traffic simulation models that let you see the whole picture

DYNAMEQ is a vehicle-based traffic simulation and dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) software that realistically simulates traffic for transport planning and traffic management studies of virtually any size.

Whether you are implementing freeway or urban congestion pricing, planning major infrastructure rehabilitation projects, or undertaking road improvements, transit planning studies, or neighborhood redevelopments, DYNAMEQ allows you to accurately evaluate the impacts of changes in travel demand, network configuration, traffic control, and pricing policies.

Test a range of scenarios in a virtual environment to get a detailed picture of traffic and mobility impacts so that you can be sure you are making the right operational planning decisions.

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Bring your models to life

High-performance animations provide a 3D, 360° visualization and analysis environment for insightful and intuitive presentations with an unparalleled combination of realism and scale.

Interactive, real-time analytics take you below the surface so you can fully understand both how and why traffic patterns change across the city.

Production-quality video recording allows you to storyboard and share animations as needed.

DYNAMEQ develop models of any size

Rapidly develop models of any size

Get started quickly with an extensive library of importers that, at the click of a button, bring in detailed network geometry from a range of popular transportation software and data formats.

Streamline model development with comprehensive network data validation and cleaning capabilities that are indispensable for larger applications and make it easy to identify and resolve issues.

Develop future scenarios using flexible capabilities for synthesizing traffic signals and turning movement parameters that are adapted to future travel demand levels.

Calibrate your models with confidence

Spend less time calibrating and more time testing scenarios with fast run times and fewer calibration parameters.

Achieve higher calibration metrics than ever before, even for large and highly congested models, with a proven simulation-based demand adjustment capability.

Generate reliable and reproducible results with industry-leading model stability and gridlock avoidance, even for high-demand future-year scenarios.

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“The DTA Model is an effective tool to evaluate traffic diversion impact due to network supply capacity changes, and the model results are credible and highly recognized by the city council and transportation professionals. ”
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“…we are now able to test more scenarios and at lower cost… and we are also able to provide paths and gate-to-gate demand consistent with citywide impacts as a starting point for any follow-on microsimulation studies.”

Technical Capabilities

Build your network quickly

Efficiently develop model scenarios from a broad range of data sources using DYNAMEQ’s extensive library of importers and capabilities for data validation, editing, and synthesis.

  • Wide range of importers for network and traffic control data
  • Comprehensive data validation reports including warnings and errors
  • Time-dependent network attributes for:
    • Vehicle class permissions on lanes and turns
    • Turn alignments
    • Link and turn capacities
    • Calibration parameters
  • Comprehensive validation capabilities and logic for estimating or synthesizing network attributes
  •  Comprehensive Python APIs for customization, automation, and modification of model inputs including network data, signal timing, and traffic demand
  • Traffic signal generator for synthesizing control plans for future scenarios and optimizing detours for short-term operational planning
  • Network splitting and merging capabilities for simultaneous multiperson network editing and development
  • Intuitive and comprehensive network editing capabilities to efficiently add detail and develop scenarios
  • Real-world context with out-of-the-box web base maps or self-hosted raster tile maps

Produce meaningful model results

Efficiently calibrate your model to achieve defensible model results that accurately describe the real world.

  • Proven simulation-based demand adjustment algorithm for model calibration, allowing you to achieve higher calibration statistics than ever before
  • Traffic count analysis capability to quickly identify data inconsistencies
  • Visualization and statistics for comparing model outputs to traffic data including volumes, speeds, and corridor travel times

Scalable high-fidelity traffic simulation

Quickly and easily develop traffic models on any scale, from small subareas to citywide areas and beyond.

  • Produce car following, lane changing, and gap acceptance models with fewer parameters, making it easier to calibrate and scale
  • Multithreaded, event-based simulation for exceptionally fast run times with speed-ups that increase with model size
  • Innovative gridlock avoidance logic keeps traffic flowing even in heavily congested scenarios and guides the user to critical bottlenecks for further investigation and review

Visualize, investigate, and understand model outputs

Use powerful visualization capabilities to understand traffic movements in detail and improve planning decisions.

  • Comprehensive outputs for road segments, lanes, turning movements, and intersections with dedicated customizable worksheets for visualization and comparison between DTAs and scenarios
  • Speed contour maps for assessing temporal traffic patterns on freeways and corridors
  • Built-in network aggregation for computing total intersection approach delay
  • Flexible select-link analysis and visualization
  • Traversal matrix calculation with temporal profile adjustment at external gates
  • Sub-area export to external scenarios for detailed analysis
  • Visualization of O-D paths with on-the-fly calculation of related metrics such as toll revenue and generalized cost
  • Interactive option for computing corridor travel times and costs
  • Export of link-based or continuous-time vehicle trajectories for post-processing and visualization
  • Broad range of standard O-D results with dedicated worksheets for visualization and analysis
  • Matrix skims for feedback to demand models

Large-scale animation and analytics

Produce large-scale animations with detailed analytics for clear, comprehensive insights into traffic movements.

  • High-performance visualization at the individual vehicle level across the entire model
  • Instantaneous fast-forward and rewind allows you to quickly see and replay any part of the animation
  • Interactive capabilities to visualize vehicle paths based on link, lane, or vehicle group selection
Build your network quickly

Build your network quickly

Efficiently develop model scenarios from a broad range of data sources using DYNAMEQ’s extensive library of importers and capabilities for data validation, editing, and synthesis.

  • Wide range of importers for network and traffic control data
  • Comprehensive data validation reports including warnings and errors
  • Time-dependent network attributes for:
    • Vehicle class permissions on lanes and turns
    • Turn alignments
    • Link and turn capacities
    • Calibration parameters
  • Comprehensive validation capabilities and logic for estimating or synthesizing network attributes
  •  Comprehensive Python APIs for customization, automation, and modification of model inputs including network data, signal timing, and traffic demand
  • Traffic signal generator for synthesizing control plans for future scenarios and optimizing detours for short-term operational planning
  • Network splitting and merging capabilities for simultaneous multiperson network editing and development
  • Intuitive and comprehensive network editing capabilities to efficiently add detail and develop scenarios
  • Real-world context with out-of-the-box web base maps or self-hosted raster tile maps
Produce meaningful model results

Produce meaningful model results

Efficiently calibrate your model to achieve defensible model results that accurately describe the real world.

  • Proven simulation-based demand adjustment algorithm for model calibration, allowing you to achieve higher calibration statistics than ever before
  • Traffic count analysis capability to quickly identify data inconsistencies
  • Visualization and statistics for comparing model outputs to traffic data including volumes, speeds, and corridor travel times
Scalable high-fidelity traffic simulation

Scalable high-fidelity traffic simulation

Quickly and easily develop traffic models on any scale, from small subareas to citywide areas and beyond.

  • Produce car following, lane changing, and gap acceptance models with fewer parameters, making it easier to calibrate and scale
  • Multithreaded, event-based simulation for exceptionally fast run times with speed-ups that increase with model size
  • Innovative gridlock avoidance logic keeps traffic flowing even in heavily congested scenarios and guides the user to critical bottlenecks for further investigation and review
Fully featured DTA to handle all your applications Visualize, investigate, and understand model outputs

Visualize, investigate, and understand model outputs

Use powerful visualization capabilities to understand traffic movements in detail and improve planning decisions.

  • Comprehensive outputs for road segments, lanes, turning movements, and intersections with dedicated customizable worksheets for visualization and comparison between DTAs and scenarios
  • Speed contour maps for assessing temporal traffic patterns on freeways and corridors
  • Built-in network aggregation for computing total intersection approach delay
  • Flexible select-link analysis and visualization
  • Traversal matrix calculation with temporal profile adjustment at external gates
  • Sub-area export to external scenarios for detailed analysis
  • Visualization of O-D paths with on-the-fly calculation of related metrics such as toll revenue and generalized cost
  • Interactive option for computing corridor travel times and costs
  • Export of link-based or continuous-time vehicle trajectories for post-processing and visualization
  • Broad range of standard O-D results with dedicated worksheets for visualization and analysis
  • Matrix skims for feedback to demand models
Large-scale animation and analytics

Large-scale animation and analytics

Produce large-scale animations with detailed analytics for clear, comprehensive insights into traffic movements.

  • High-performance visualization at the individual vehicle level across the entire model
  • Instantaneous fast-forward and rewind allows you to quickly see and replay any part of the animation
  • Interactive capabilities to visualize vehicle paths based on link, lane, or vehicle group selection
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Frequently Asked Questions

How is DYNAMEQ used?

DYNAMEQ is a vehicle-based traffic simulation and dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) software that realistically simulates traffic for operational planning studies for models of virtually any size. It helps improve planning decisions by testing a range of scenarios in a virtual environment to evaluate changes to travel demand, network configuration, traffic control, or pricing policies.

What other applications and services can be used alongside DYNAMEQ?

DYNAMEQ may be used alongside other Bentley products including EMME, multimodal transport planning software, and CUBE, land-use and transport forecasting software.

Does DYNAMEQ require EMME or CUBE?

No, DYNAMEQ does not require EMME or CUBE. DYNAMEQ is stand-alone software that can import data from different sources and software packages and may be used alongside EMME or CUBE.

How much does DYNAMEQ cost?

The price of DYNAMEQ varies per region. While there are various types of licensing available, a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Virtuosity, Bentley’s eStore. When you purchase through Virtuosity, you get a Virtuoso Subscription. This means you get the software and keys to redeem for customizable training, mentoring, and consulting services.

System Requirements

  • Operating System
    • 64-bit Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8, Server 2019, Server 2016, and Server 2012
  • Minimum disk space
    • 2 GB for installation files
  • RAM
    • Minimum 4GB RAM, 16GB RAM recommended
  • Graphics
    • Use of DYNAMEQ animation features requires OpenGL 4.0 support
  • Browser
    • Use of certain DYNAMEQ Notebook features requires recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, or Edge
  • Reference Systems: DYNAMEQ offers high-performance scientific, graphics, and interactive computing capabilities. Certain DYNAMEQ features benefit from high-performance computing (CPUs) and dedicated graphics processors (GPUs). Requirements vary by application. The reference systems below provide illustrative guidelines:
    • Base system example
      • Core i5, 2 GHz or greater base clock
      • 4 cores / 8 threads or more
      • 8 GB RAM or more
      • NVIDIA GeForce, AMD Radeon, Intel Arc or integrated graphics (non-graphic workloads)
    • Intermediate systems
      • Core i7 or i9 CPU, 3 GHz or greater base clock
      • 8 cores / 16 threads or more
      • 32GB of RAM or more
      • NVIDIA RTX 3050, AMD Radeon 6600XT, Intel Arc A770 or integrated graphics (non-graphic workloads)
    • Advanced systems
      • Xeon CPU, 3GHz or greater base clock
      • 12 cores / 24 threads or more
      • 64GB RAM or more
      • NVIDIA RTX 4070Ti, NVIDIA Quadro RTX, AMD Radeon Rx 7900, or integrated graphics (non-graphic workloads)

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