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Whats New in Cube 5.0

This document describes features that Cube 5.0 introduces in different Cube modules and extensions. Sections include: Release overview Cube Base features Cube Voyager features

In addition, this document discusses Technical support and software updates on page 7. See the product documentation for more detailed information: Refer to a products release summary for a complete list of features added in previous releases. Refer to a products Reference Guide for a discussion of available features. Refer to product tutorials for exercises that demonstrate some capabilities of modules and extensions

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Release overview

Release overview
Cube version 5.0 introduces new GIS capabilities that allow you to integrate your transportation modeling data with other GIS data. Specifically, this release introduces: An ESRI-compliant geodatabase with a Cube transportation data model for road and public transport data A new GIS window This window provides selected ArcGIS functions and many of the editing and mapping features from Cubes existing graphics window. A Cube Voyager update to read from and write to the geodatabase in model applications

Cube 5.0 enhances the familiar Cube interface with ArcGIS functionality for working with road data. With Cube 5.0, you can work with maps in Cube Bases new GIS window to edit and analyze data, including road networks, polygon, polyline, point, and raster data. Cube stores the data in a geodatabase, following Cube-specific topology rules. Cube 5.0 establishes a common data-storage format that allows you to share data and maps between Cube and ArcGIS. You can open and map, but not edit, this geodatabase data in ArcGIS. Similarly, you can open any maps created in ArcGIS (MXD files) with Cube 5.0.

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Cube Base features

Cube Base features

This section lists the new Cube Base features grouped into several categories: Data Projections Mapping Interoperability Data editing & analysis

Data
New geodatabase for road data and public transport data, including support for multiple networks DBF-formatted data, polygons, polylines, points, and images New custom data model for transportation planning Importing and exporting road networks to and from geodatabase Importing and exporting public transport lines files and nontransit legs files Shape points in road networks New image formats: MrSID, ECW New vector formats: DXF and other CAD formats

Projections
Projection definitions On-the-fly geographic projections

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Mapping
What-you-see-is-what-you-get page layout ESRI scale bars ESRI north arrows Access to ESRI symbology library in mapping Improved posting

Interoperability
Read and write ESRI map documents (.MXD files)

Data editing & analysis

ESRI table of contents Opening attributes from table of contents New custom editor for transportation planning data Multiple selection of features Selection by attribute Spatial selection Graphical selection On-screen selection Group editing of selected features Editing of geodatabase and shapefile data Map searches Measuring tools Zooming to selected features Scroll-wheel zoom and pan

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Cube Voyager features

Cube Voyager features

This section lists the new Cube Voyager features grouped into several categories.

General
Includes all cumulative minor bug fixes since the release of version 4.2.

Highway program
Adds support for storing and maintaining highway network data in the geodatabase file format. You can link input and output networks from the Highway program directly to a network feature class in a geodatabase.

Network program
Adds support for storing and maintaining highway network data in the geodatabase file format. You can link input and output networks from the Network program directly to a network feature class in a geodatabase. You can also link input and output link and node data directly to feature data classes in a geodatabase.

Matrix program
Adds support for storing and maintaining data tables in the geodatabase file format. Specifically, the Matrix program can read geodatabase data tables with the FILEI DBI or FILEI RECI control statements. The Matrix program can write to geodatabase data tables with the FILEO RECO control statement.

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Cube Voyager features

Adds support for reading from and writing to EMME/2 data banks. The Matrix program can now write matrices, zonal data, and constants to an existing EMME/2 data bank, and the Matrix program can read existing data in an EMME/2 data bank and save in Cube Voyager binary or DBF formats.

Public Transport program

Adds support for storing and maintaining transit data in the geodatabase file format. You can directly link input and output transit line, link, and node data from the Public Transport program to line, link, and node special feature classes in a geodatabase.

Cube Avenue program

Optimization improvements to the ILOOP phase improve run-time performance.

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Technical support and software updates

Technical support and software updates

This section describes technical support and software update options. Topics include: Annual maintenance contract Technical support Software updates

Annual maintenance contract

Citilabs combines the services of technical support and software updates into one software maintenance service contract. Clients wishing to receive software maintenance services are encouraged to purchase an annual contract. These contracts may be purchased at any time. However, an update fee will be charged if a client wishes to resume the maintenance service that has been discontinued for a period of time. Please contact your local distributor or Citilabs for more information about the annual maintenance contract.

Technical support
Citilabs attempts to provide timely answers to questions about the behavior and performance of our software products covered under a software maintenance contract. You can contact Citilabs using: World Wide Web support Submit your support query directly through our user support form at: http://www.citilabs.com/supportform.html Submitting your support query through our Web-based support form allows your support request to enter our support request tracking and response system, where we assign it a tracking number and a support staff member for response.

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Citilabs maintains a World Wide Web site (www.citilabs.com) that hosts a variety of pages with up-to-date information about our products. Answers to general technical support questions will be posted on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages as well. A direct link to the Citilabs home page is provided under the Help menu. Citilabs maintains and monitors a user group at (http:// citilabs.com/usergroup/). This site provides a forum for product users to post questions and get answers and information from other users as well as Citilabs staff. Notices for training and workshop events or other special Citilabs events are also posted to the user group. There is a Files area for the group to post examples and share information. Citilabs staff and clients have posted a number of useful example scripts to the files area of the group. E-mail support Clients who licensed Citilabs software through a local distributor should e-mail support questions to the distributor. A current list of distributors can be found at http:// www.citilabs.com/contact.html Clients who licensed Citilabs software directly from Citilabs should submit support queries using the web based support form described above. If you have problems accessing the Web submission form, then you may e-mail support questions including license number to the appropriate address.
Client location U.S., Canada, Mexico, Central America, or South America UK, Europe, Africa, or the Middle East Asia, Australia, or New Zealand E-mail contact address Support_US@citilabs.com Support_UK@citilabs.com Support_Asia@citilabs.com

Please do not send e-mail with large attachments (greater than 3MB). Large attachments that need to be transmitted to Citilabs as part of a technical support issue should be uploaded to the

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Citilabs file transfer site (FTP). Detailed instructions for accessing the company FTP site are available at http:// www.citilabs.com/ftp.html.

Software updates
You can update Cube in one of two ways: Replacement CD Citilabs Web site

A replacement CD, with the latest version of Cube, will be sent to a client upon the renewal of the annual maintenance contract. Clients should reinstall Cube from the replacement CD to update the software as well as the maintenance contract expiration date. Software updates can also be done from the Citilabs Web site (www.citilabs.com). Detailed instructions for Web-updating Cube are available at www.citilabs.com. A current maintenance contract is required for Web update.
WARNING: Do not attempt to update your software if your maintenance contract has expired, or you did not update the maintenance contract expiration date by re-installing from the replacement CD. It will render your system inoperable.

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