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A new issue of the Florida Transportation Modeling Newsletter has been published and posted on the newsletter page. This issue announces the release of FSUTMS/Cube version 5 last month, as well as the 2008-2009 FSUTMS training schedule. The issue also discusses the FDOT Express Bus Survey in the Tampa Bay area, the new users' group in Central Florida, and the TRB Transportation Planning Applications Conference.

The public version of FSUTMS/Cube Verson 5.0.1 was mailed out to all public agencies on Thursday, July 17, 2008.

Version 5.0.1 includes the latest updates of Cube Base and Cube Voyager. It also includes Cube GIS, Cube Cluster, Citilabs' mesoscopic simulation tool Cube Avenue, the latest FSUTMS Launcher, and the Cube License file. Please contact or for questions and technical support.

The FDOT Systems Planning Office, working with TeachAmerica, Cambridge Systematics, inc., and Wilbur Smith Associates, has recently completed the devevlopment the FSUTMS Executive Summary Online training course. The training course is mostly based on the same training workshop we currently offer with some modifications. In addtion to the usual presentation slides, we have added many interactive exercises to emphasize the main points we want to get across, and to provide step-by-step instructions on how to perform some of the basic operations within the FSUTMS/Voyager modeling environment. This online course will supplement our training workshops by providing opportunities for those who cannot attend the workshops in person. We are working with the Florida Board of Professional Engineers to get approval for PDH credits. In the mean time, we would like to get your feedback with regard to the content, pace, and depth of the traing course, and ways to improve our training in general. You can access the training course by clicking here. Please send your comments and suggestions to of Systems Planning Office by Friday, July 18.

This update replaces the FORTRAN programs currently used in the transit modeling framework for REWALK (REWALK.exe) and TAReport (TAReport.exe) with Cube Voyager applications (ReWalkApp and TAReportApp). The Cube Voyager applications serve the same purpose as the FORTRAN programs. The accompanying documentation describes the application logic, catalog keys, input and output files, and procedures to import the applications into a model. Please visit the Transit Modeling Framework page for more information and download the files.

A new version of AUTOCON and TAREPORT has been posted on the Transit Modeling Framework page. A new functionality has been added to AUTOCON that would allow users to build kiss-ride connectors that are distinct from park-ride locations. The included documentation describes the new values of TSTYPE needed to access the features. In TAREPORT, the array dimensions have been increased to accommodate large number of links usually present in large models. There are no major or structural changes.

The FDOT Systems Planning Office is working with TeachAmerica to develop online training courses for FSUTMS-Cube models. These trainig courses will be largely based on the training workshops we currently offer with some modifications for interative exercises. The purpose of the online courses is to provide an opportunity for those who cannot attend the workshops due to schedule conflict to learn the modeling themselves, and for those who attended the workshops to review what they learned from the class.

The public version of FSUTMS/Cube V4.2.2 was mailed out to all public agencies on Thursday, December 27, 2007.

Version 4.2.2 includes the latest updates Citilabs has released since June 2007. It also includes Cube Cluster, Cube GIS 5.0 Beta, the latest FSUTMS Launcher, and Cube License file. It is strongly recommended that the new version be installed immediately upon receiving the software DVD. The current maintainence license expired on Dec 31, 2007, and the old versions of the sofware will not run without the new license file. The software DVD will update the maintenance license to December 2008.