Development of interactive visualization tool for effective presentation of traffic impacts to nonexperts

A tool for the interactive visualization of traffic impacts (IVTI) has been developed. This tool offers clear, comprehensive and effective views of proposed transportation enhancements. The IVTI system has two primary components; the development system and a delivery system. The development system generates a template of the presentation into which the audio, video and image assets are captured in digital form and integrated into the general presentation framework. The delivery system on the other hand is a scaled-down portable version of IVTI equipped with video projection capabilities. It enables interactive presentations of the visualizations of the subject transportation improvement to an audience.