VMA: Urban Traffic Model for Amsterdam

The VMA is an urban traffic model for the city of Amsterdam. It is intended for strategic road and public transport studies and can be used for sound studies. The dataset is provided by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under a CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Forecasting traffic flows for road network planning based on the model's strategic design.
• Modeling public transport demand and routing based on the integrated transport framework.
• Conducting environmental impact assessments, such as noise studies, based on simulated traffic data.

Strengths

• Model is designed for strategic urban planning, suggesting a structured analytical framework.
• Data is provided by a national government ministry, indicating an official source.
• Documentation is explicitly referenced, which may support proper usage.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely generated by an urban traffic simulation model.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

City of Amsterdam