This latest release (scheduled for February) adds improvements to Freeways, TWSC, Service Volumes, and the Highway Safety Software (see below).

Freeways – Several improvements are implemented in this HCS7 module to include more intelligent graphics within the reports and provide more functionality to the data coding process by allowing it to be interactive with the graphics and to include individual segment access within a facility analysis.

TWSC – The internal architecture of this module ibeing completely rewritten to improve program speed and accuracy. To expedite coding of MUT/RCUT crossover intersections, new functionality is being added.

Highway Safety Software – The Empirical Bayes (EB) analysis is being added, including input data for observed crashes. An economic analysis is planned for implementation within this update as well.

Service Volumes – Geometric data importing from Freeways (XUF) files to the Service Volume tool is being implemented to eliminate the need to code the data twice. Reports are being updated to display the full service volume tables. To complement the existing page view, full view functionality is being added.

HCS7 Demo – A free demonstration version of Release 7.4 that contains most of the HCM6 examples with full interface (but limited computational) functionality is now available on the McTrans website: http://mctrans.ce.ufl.edu/mct/index.php/hcs/hcs-downloads/.