Exacto

Exacto is a Portuguese consultancy firm, specializing in transport planning, with relevant know-how in traffic and transport models, both in urban and non-urban areas. Established in 1986, the company has 27 years of experience in transportation solutions, covering the following expertise areas:

• Traffic Studies

• Urban Traffic Planning & Management

• Accessibility and Parking Plans

• Multimodal Studies

• Regional Transport Impact Studies

• Economic Evaluation of Transport Infrastructures

The company has a team of specialists in transport modelling, as well as trained personal for the implementation of field work (traffic counts, OD surveys, etc.), in order to guarantee high reliability in the data collection process.

Exacto has developed specific support tools, specially designed for traffic studies and transport planning, namely in what concerns:  i) OD matrix development and growth, based in a gravitational model (with socio-economic independent variables); ii) traffic assignment to actual and future networks, including modal split analysis of IT/PT.

The company has also established long lasting partnership relations with the Halcrow Group and Arup, international leading firms in transport planning. 

EXACTO has prepared more than five hundred studies, in Portugal and other countries, addressing different transport topics. A few selected references are summarised hereafter:

• Urban Circulation and Parking Plans in cities all over Portugal

• Traffic studies for the most important transport corridors in Lisbon

• Street and Parking Master Plans for new urban areas in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya

• Circulating and Parking Plan in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

• Bus Rapid Transit and New Metro Network at Salvador, Brazil

• Interface layout, including freight and passengers railway stations of the Portuguese Railway Company

• Layout of Multimodal High Speed Rail Stations, for the Portuguese Railway Company

• Traffic impact analysis of large commercial buildings in urban areas, in several cities in Portugal

• Accessibility study of the new Lisbon Airport, comparing several alternatives

• Senior Transport Modeller

1. Traffic Study for Vasco da Gama Bridge and for the Inner and Outer Orbital Motorways of Lisbon

2. Traffic Forecasts for new motorways in Portugal, Peru and Brazil

3. Consultant of the European Investment Bank and of the Portuguese Mobility National Institute