A New Way of Transportation Modeling—"Cloud Computing" Based Internet Solution for Transportation Modeling
Wang Minhua · 2010
This paper introduces the first Internet-based solution for transportation modeling software, named "Mint" (i.e., Modeling on Internet). Mint is a web-based, hosted scalable platform for transportation modeling that provides governments and consulting firms with software-as-a-service (SaaS) benefits. In other words, Mint is a "no software" solution. Using Mint, most organizations will be able to get faster results while reducing their costs by cutting down on software and hardware investments, as well as on overhead for in-house IT staff. Cost savings can also be realized as web-based systems enable the sharing of licenses across multiple clients. By leveraging web technologies and using a system architecture that allows for simple sharing, multiple clients and stakeholders can apply models and access the results online from anywhere.