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Details: Application Manager
Application Manager provides a graphical view of a transportation process, where the process may be a Cube Voyager, Cube Avenue, Cube Cargo model stream or those built with any other Cube Module/Extension or legacy program (TP+, TRIPS and TRANPLAN). The view is in a hierarchical flow chart style that offers the following:
Application Manager is of value in other important respects as a:
Project-Based Tool
Application Manager is largely structured around the concept of applications, which are like “projects” so that the use of Cube or legacy-based models can be strongly linked with the varied interests and features of users’ own sets of projects. Application Manager’s method of grouping a transportation model into subtasks is valuable when creating larger models. The use of subtasks also makes it easy to re-use a subtask in another model, thus creating the user’s own library of re-usable model functions;
Application Manager can be used to “sketch” out the structure of a model before it is populated with data or parameters. This allows the modelstructure to be discussed and refined before resources are committed to its implementation.
File Management System
Practical applications of Cube models, can use and generate many files, Application Manager automates such functions as file naming and appropriate deletion of output files; it provides techniques for handling model scenarios efficiently. The visualization of the connections between files minimizes the chance of inputting the wrong files to a program;
Automated Model Documentation System
The value of many models is lost when future users cannot understand the structure or function of a model which has been insufficiently documented in the original rush to create it. Application Manager naturally documents many aspects of models as they are developed; if its facilities are used appropriately, and in conjunction with the documenting features of the chosen package, this can produce a well-documented model with minimal effort;
Provider of Help
Application Manager supports several levels of assistance to users:
Application Manager provides a graphical view of a transportation process, where the process may be a Cube Voyager, Cube Avenue, Cube Cargo model stream or those built with any other Cube Module/Extension or legacy program (TP+, TRIPS and TRANPLAN). The view is in a hierarchical flow chart style that offers the following:
- A clear view of the individual processes that form the complete process, the flow of data from one process to another, and the order in which the processes are run.
- A clear view of the data that is input to, and output from each process.
- A convenient means of editing and viewing that data.
- A convenient interface for running either part of the process, or the whole thing.
Application Manager is of value in other important respects as a:
Project-Based Tool
Application Manager is largely structured around the concept of applications, which are like “projects” so that the use of Cube or legacy-based models can be strongly linked with the varied interests and features of users’ own sets of projects. Application Manager’s method of grouping a transportation model into subtasks is valuable when creating larger models. The use of subtasks also makes it easy to re-use a subtask in another model, thus creating the user’s own library of re-usable model functions;
Application Manager can be used to “sketch” out the structure of a model before it is populated with data or parameters. This allows the modelstructure to be discussed and refined before resources are committed to its implementation.
File Management System
Practical applications of Cube models, can use and generate many files, Application Manager automates such functions as file naming and appropriate deletion of output files; it provides techniques for handling model scenarios efficiently. The visualization of the connections between files minimizes the chance of inputting the wrong files to a program;
Automated Model Documentation System
The value of many models is lost when future users cannot understand the structure or function of a model which has been insufficiently documented in the original rush to create it. Application Manager naturally documents many aspects of models as they are developed; if its facilities are used appropriately, and in conjunction with the documenting features of the chosen package, this can produce a well-documented model with minimal effort;
Provider of Help
Application Manager supports several levels of assistance to users:
- Its menus summarize the actions of TRIPS and Tranplan control parameters, options, and selections providing help at-a-glance;
- Standardized modeling procedures, provided as Application Manager application files and fully documented, give the basis for rapid development of practical modeling applications;
- Application Manager is the primary interface for model development. Double-clicking certain types of file, for example a network, will read the network and display it, allowing the network to be edited
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2010-02-03
