Caliper Corporation
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Caliper Corporation was founded in 1983 as a developer of mapping software and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.Caliper develops geographic information systems (GIS) and transportation software. Caliper is also a consulting and R&D provider offering professional services in quantitative management consulting, transportation, and decision support systems development.Caliper is the developer of the TransCAD transportation planning software, TransModeler traffic simulation software, and Maptitude GIS packages.TransCADTransCAD is software for transportation planning. In addition to the standard point, line, area, and image layers in a GIS map, TransCAD supports route system layers and has tools for creating, manipulating and displaying routes. TransCAD uses a network data structure to support routing and network optimization models. TransCAD includes trip generation, distribution, mode choice, and traffic assignment models that support transportation planning and travel demand forecasting. TransCAD has a set of dynamic segmentation and linear referencing tools for managing highway, rail, pipeline, and other networks.
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