PTV Group expands knowledge base with new hire

Following its acquisition of UK-based Distribution Planning Software International, PTV Group has put a new management team in place in the UK and Scandinavia. Both companies offer route planning software designed for the transport logistics sector and the deal expands the international market for their products.

PTV Group’s head of global research, Professor Dr Christoph Walther, has been appointed to a four-year term on the World Road Association (WRA) Road Transport System Economics and Social Development Committee. Together with experts from around the world, he will deal with issues concerning transport reliability and ex-post evaluation of transport infrastructure projects. Supported by the governments of its member countries, the WRA aims to promote international cooperation in roads and road transport. Ex

European route and trip planning software solutions provider, PTV Group, is expanding its sales and services into Scandinavia, to take advantage of current market demand. Several Scandinavian companies, including Finnish companies DSV and Itella, and Abax, Norway, already benefit from PTV software and consulting services for transport, logistics and geomarketing, utilising the company’s route planning software Map&Guide and the component based xServers. “It was our desire to change the reactive market appr

TSS-Transport Simulation Systems, the developer of Aimsun and Aimsun Online traffic simulation software, is to open a new office in Sydney, Australia. Opening in early 2012, the office is located in Sydney's central Market Street and will be managed by TSS's consulting director, Dr Alexandre Torday, who has been the chief liaison for several Aimsun modelling efforts in the region.

PTV Group has launched what it calls its new Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) accelerator program, a portfolio of component technologies for planning, operating and managing MaaS in any city around the world. According to Miller Crockart, PTV Group’s vice-president of global traffic sales and marketing, the company has leveraged its expertise in routing, scheduling and trip optimisation to develop a commercially available software suite capable of quickly and efficiently evaluating MaaS. PTV is already w

Transport software and consulting group, PTV, has expanded its board of directors with the appointment of Michel Zweers as chief financial officer. He will head the company with PTV’s CEO, Vincent Kobesen. Prior to joining PTV in 2011 as vice president of Finance and Internal Services, Zweers held leadership positions in finance at several organisations. As CFO, Zweers is responsible for Finance & Controlling, IT, HR, Legal & Compliance and Customer Service. "Thanks to the good results in the last two