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Release 4.0 - Packed with New Features and Enhancements

Release 4.0 of the EMME/2 transportation planning software is now in the final stage of the beta tests and the official distribution will start in June. This issue of EMME/2 NEWS is dedicated entirely to introducing the many enhancements and new features that have been added in this new release. Of course, we cannot cover all details here, so we concentrate on the main points only.

Let us first give a short summary of the main functional additions and enhancements introduced in Release 4.0:

The items marked with an asterisk (*) are explained in more detail elsewhere in this newsletter.

Besides the functional enhancements of the code itself, some maximum dimensions were also substantially increased with Release 4.0:

The User's Manual has also been enhanced and completed, including the addition of the "missing" chapter VI. The manual has been completely reprinted and the new edition will be distributed along with the new release.

Switching from Release 3.0 to Release 4.0 is quite simple. You can continue to use the same data bases, the necessary transformation of the matrix directory format will be performed automatically when you use a data base for the first time with Release 4.0. You only have to make sure that you invoke the session in the normal manner, i.e. you should not bypass the banner to enter directly into a module. When the start-up module detects a data base which is still on the release level 3.0 (i.e. still contains an old-style matrix directory), the user is prompted and has to confirm that indeed he wants to proceed with the transformation. Once a data base has been updated this way, it should no longer be used with the old release. See the release notes for details.


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Heinz Spiess, EMME/2 Support Center, Thu Jun 6 14:17:23 MET DST 1996