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Bentley Systems Announces Acquisition of Mobility Simulation Leader INRO
To Extend Mobility Digital Twins for Dynamic Multimodal Simulation EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nTo Extend Mobility Digital Twins for Dynamic Multimodal Simulation\n\n EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nBentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced the acquisition of INRO Software, a global leader in multimodal transportation planning, traffic simulation, and mobility visualization software. The acquisition expands Bentley’s capabilities in the important growth area of mobility digital twins, just as countries including the U.S. are poised to make a generational investment in infrastructure, and as transportation systems must evolve faster to accommodate both urbanization and carbon reduction goals, and the transition to electric and autonomous vehicles.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210414005928/en/Image produced with Emme (www.inrosoftware.com/emme) using data from Metro (https://www.oregonmetro.gov/) (Image courtesy of INRO)\nINRO, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, has for more than 40 years contributed to the advancement of mobility simulation and modeling for metropolitan, regional, and national transport and transit operators and planning agencies. Users of its multimodal simulation offerings include some of the world’s busiest transit systems and metros, such as Transport for London, Transport for New South Wales, the Washington State Department of Transportation, the Swedish Transport Administration Trafikverket, and the public transport system of São Paulo SPTrans.\n\nINRO’s products include Emme, a multimodal transportation planning system for urban, regional, and national transportation forecasting; Dynameq, a vehicle-based traffic simulation platform for city-wide traffic planning; and CityPhi, a mobility visualization solution providing data visualization and visual analytics of large-scale mobility and geospatial datasets.\n\nCombining the capabilities of INRO’s advanced traffic and vehicle simulation with Bentley’s passenger and pedestrian simulation and civil design software, including CUBE, Streetlytics, LEGION, and OpenRoads, places Bentley in a very strong position to deliver comprehensive mobility digital twins of multimodal transportation systems at urban, metropolitan, regional, and national scale.\n\nAdvancing Mobility Digital Twins\n\nUrban planners are seekin...