Article ID: CBB070212067

Managing traffic complexity. Canadian transport planning software package Emme, 1970s–2010s (December 2021)

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Based on a variety of primary sources, ranging from academic publications to grey literature to interviews, this article tells the story of Emme, a traffic forecasting software package. Designed as a prototype within the University of Montreal in the late 1970s/early 1980s and regularly enhanced by the Canadian firm INRO since then, Emme has been massively used as a commercial product for urban transport planning throughout the world. Bringing to the fore a much neglected, albeit crucial, theme in transport and mobility studies, i.e., the various mathematical tools (models) – and the actors involved in their production – conceived and utilized for designing transport infrastructures and mobility programs and policies, this article may also be of interest to scholars working in fields other than transport and interested in a series of topics ranging from the increasing commercialization of academic knowledge to the organization of knowledge intensive firms.

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Authors & Contributors
Emanuel, Martin
Schipper, Frank
Lundin, Per
Elrahman, Ossama Abd
Guillermo Guajardo Soto
Deverall, William
Concepts
Land transportation
Urban planning
Automobiles
Traffic Planning
Roads and highways
urban transportation
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Sweden
United States
Norway
Germany
Europe
Magdeburg, Germany
Institutions
League of Nations
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