Synchro allows for full input of all parameters from the HCM.
• Synchro also allows for extensive adjustment of signal timing parameters.
• Synchro also allows for the analysis and design of coordinated signal systems, and
has optimization features to develop optimal signal cycle lengths and offsets.
• Synchro allows for the modification of signal phasing, and the modification of ring
and barrier diagrams, in order to create specialized custom phasing.
• Synchro also provides the ability to control multiple intersections from a single
traffic signal controller.
• SimTraffic allows for adjustment of driver and vehicle characteristics (such as
acceptable gaps, acceleration factors, average speeds), and allows for
specifications of driver populations.
• SimTraffic is easier to use and allows visual simulation with less effort than many
of the more complicated traffic simulation models.
Disadvantages