TRB is very much a meeting of the academic, research and commercial worlds for the transportation industry. PTV Group started 37 years ago as an off-shoot of Karlsruhe Institute of Technologies when Hans Hubschneider and a small group of colleagues developed the first software programs that are now highly recognized around the world, such as PTV Vissim and PTV Visum. Initially, these software programs were started under Hans and more recently under the leadership of CEO Vincent Kobesen. The company has continued to flourish and serves as a worldwide leader in transportation and logistics software.
“At times in our history, our ties to the academic world were not as we would have wished”, stated Miller Crockart, vice president of global sales and marketing traffic, “however today the opposite is true. We have instigated an official academic partnership program, with significant financial and manpower investments. A dedicated PTV Group team led by Professor Guido Gentile of PTV Group and Sapienza University, and Dr. Klaus Nökel, will directly cultivate our engagement with academia. A board of several eminent professors and institutions (including MIT and Stanford in the USA) will actively manage and drive the type of topics, and approaches, to the collaboration that will be addressed between PTV Group and academia. Guido and Klaus are both in D.C. this week, and I’m positive that they are willing to meet with many of you to discuss PTV Group’s academic partner program and what it can offer your institutions and academic research.”
