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title: "European Transport Conference: British and French SYSTRA experts in the spotlight"
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# European Transport Conference: British and French SYSTRA experts in the spotlight

![European Transport Conference: British and French SYSTRA experts in the spotlight](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ca22575c811761faf671d60ca9cb9b.jpg)

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**Sean Kearns and Jiri Paukrt, from SYSTRA UK, spoke about recent improvements to the National Transport Authority’s long distance model.**
The National Transport Authority’s long distance model is a system for modelling
long distance inter-urban travel across Ireland and Northern Ireland. It models
all trips made by Irish residents and visitors by mode (car, bus, and rail), and
goods vehicles.Recent enhancements have been brought to the system concerning
modelling long distance rail demand. The scope of the task was to improve the
capability of the model to predict long-distance rail demand, and its ability to
test the effects of rail enhancements such as increased number of trains, higher
capacities or changes in fares.

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**Quentin Chasserieau and Robin Goix, from SYSTRA France, presented the design and use of Quetzal, an open-source Python library for transport modelling.**
Quetzal aims to provide a reliable solution that addresses some of the
limitations of closed-source modelling software such as structured data-sharing
and workflow integration.This open-source library offers tools to help carry out
modelling tasks in the fields of data pre-processing and integrity checks,
data-management and transport-modelling. The library can be used as toolbox or
as a self-sufficient modelling system. Quetzal is a cool open-source tool,
particularly relevant in an open-data context.

_For more information about the design and use of Quetzal, click on the image below:_

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