Department for Transport National Transport Model v. 5 2024 Rebase
Buyer: Department for Transport
- Published
- 22 March 2024
- Place of performance
- UK
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 009464-2024
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-044bfb
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 72300000Data services
- 79315000Social research services
Description
The National Transport Model version 5 (NTMv5) is a large transport model, developed using classic transport modelling principles but with a number of adaptations to enable it to be sufficiently informative with shorter run times. Some parts of the model use a “masking” system with a representative subset of zone-to-zone movements, to reduce computation times. The Department for Transport is considering a `rebase' of the system. There are three important elements to this work. First, and most important, the requirement is to update the highway assignment component of NTMv5 to reflect the situation post-covid19. This is needed for strategic forecasting purposes. In practice, this means using data from 2022 and 2023, a shorter period than the original data used to estimate NTMv5. The challenge with this work will be to exercise judgement about where compromises are needed to meet the tight timescales for this project, whilst still providing sufficient quality for strategic forecasting. This work may also provide some opportunity (albeit within limited timescales) for an innovative approach to meet this challenge. Secondly, we intend to switch from using National Highways traffic coun…
Official publications
- FTS · 009464-2024 · 22 March 2024
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