PTraffic

Transport systems are complicated and diverse, with entire cities and towns being covered by various modes of interlocking types of transport. PTraffic allows users to enter all that information and have it displayed in a few graphs and tables that make it clear and easy to understand.

PTraffic offers a range of options to enter the data, but there is no quick way to do it. While the application tries to make it easy, there is no shortcut for building an entire cities or towns transport system in the application. Users must enter every station, every train or tram line manually, which requires time and resources.

The payoff is a comprehensive and detailed model of a multiple transport systems that can be easily studied afterwards. The application might make this easier, however with more templates and pre-built models of famous cities or noted transport systems. Starting from scratch is demanding and requires users be willing to dedicate a lot of time to the application.

Once users have all the information added to PTraffic, they can get to the real use of the application: its graphs and tables. The tables condense all the information into a more user friendly format and can be expanded and edited in different ways. HTML links can be added, as well additional links and images. All of this leads to a lot of information being clearly displayed and is much more user friendly than the data entry stage.

A filter option and being able to hide sections of information would be useful though. The application is very good at displaying large amounts of information, but if you want a smaller schedule from a large system, there are few ways to get the specific details quickly.

To sum up, PTraffic is a very robust and detailed application that is very good at turning a comprehensive transport system into a few pages of different visual aids. It does however require a lot of time to use and expects the users to put in most of the effort when recreating those systems.