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This presentation provides a summary of recent enhancements to the TRICS system, including some changes being made for our next system update at the beginning of July. I’m also going to discuss our new exciting redesign of the complete system - TRICS 7. Now as many of you know I like to add a bit of quirkiness to my presentations. However, this year I have over 30 slides to get through, so sorry no photos this year. 1
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This presentation provides a summary of recent enhancements to the TRICS system, including some changes being made for our next system update at the beginning of July. I’m also going to discuss our new exciting redesign of the complete system - TRICS 7. Now as many of you know I like to add a bit of quirkiness to my presentations. However, this year I have over 30 slides to get through, so sorry no photos this year.

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TRICS system update schedule for 2012. Normal procedure is for us to release system updates every three months, with every second update containing new system enhancements (with data only updates in between). However, due to scheduling we will actually have three system development updates this year, the first of which we’ve already had back at the end of March. The forthcoming July update will contain the remainder of the 2011/12 system enhancements, with the December release containing the first batch of system developments in the 2012/13 programme. In between these we’ll have a database only update in September. Note that we continue to add new data to the system every three months, regardless of whether there are system enhancements being added or not.

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So, TRICS 2012(a)v6.9.2 was made live on 29th March 2012, and it contained the first half of system developments that were formed as our 2011/12 programme following consultation with users via our annual User Survey and discussions amongst the TRICS Consortium. Remember that each year we have a budget set aside for system improvements, and your participation in the User Survey is essential for this process to work. We are pleased that so many of you do participate in this. Here are the main headlines from the March release, which is of course the version you will be using right now. We can go through the individual developments on the following slides.

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An on-line TRICS® Service Calendar has been introduced which provides users with the dates and times of forthcoming TRICS® quarterly system updates, along with any other extraordinary service events. For example, on 1st May 2012, TRICS® switched over from its current server in the United States to one in the UK, and information on this is provided in the example shown. There is also a feature that reminds on-line users when important dates in the TRICS® service calendar are almost due. The Service Calendar is also available for viewing at any time via a button on the Main Menu screen.

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A new “day of week” column of information has now been added to site lists, to complement the existing “most recent survey day” column. For example, if you decided to view the list of sites within the 01/A land use category, an additional column would be displayed in the table like in the image below. You can now see the most recent survey available for any site record, along with the day of the week when the survey was undertaken.

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A new PTAL data field was recently added to TRICS® and displayed in the Main Site Details section of individual site records within Greater London. This has now been enhanced, so that when viewing any London-based site in the database, users can now click on a link that will open up a new browser session and direct them to a website that can calculate PTAL results for any specified location in Greater London. TRICS® remains committed to significant levels of data collection in the capital, with the latest round of London surveys having taken place last month, followed by further surveys in the autumn.

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Up until the March release, users were unable to export graphs and charts produced in TRICS® to programs such as Excel and Word, with the graphs only being available as part of the PDF TRICS® outputs. A new feature has been introduced that now allows users to export these images by selecting the “copy data” icon available as an option along the top of the screen. Upon selecting this, the image being viewed is now made available as a JPEG file, and can be saved to the location of the user’s choice. These JPEG’s can then be inserted into documents and worksheets, allowing users to highlight specific charts and graphs at any point when writing their own reports.

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It is important that users always log out of their TRICS® sessions correctly when their work is complete, so a new “log out” icon that is much clearer and is available on all screens has been introduced for this purpose. Failure to log out properly can cause issues with the memory of the TRICS® server, so please ensure that you click on the new “log out” icon whenever you want to leave TRICS®, and the system will remain at its optimum operating speed for everyone.

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In previous versions of TRICS®, the highest and lowest trip rate parameter value in any given data set was displayed in the calculation’s PDF output. For example, if the user’s selection range was 4000-8000m2 GFA, the selected site with the lowest GFA within this range and the site with the highest GFA within this range would have their GFA’s displayed (for example 4125-7784m2 GFA). In this new version, an additional output is shown alongside this, displaying the actual range that the user input (for example 4000-8000m2 GFA), so the selected range and the actual range can now both be seen at the same time.

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A while ago, an advice note on use of the “cross test” feature on the trip rate calculation results screen was introduced, to provide users with some explanatory information and guidance. Since then, users have commented that there needs to be further detail in this note, and this new version of TRICS® now contains this additional information, which should hopefully provide further clarification as to the use of the “cross test” feature, and levels of mean/median variation within it. More about this will be discussed in the next presentation.

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So we can now move on to the forthcoming TRICS 2012(b)v6.10.1 update, which is being released very shortly at the beginning of July. Like the March release, this update will contain a selection of system enhancements, and we can briefly run through them here (with more detailed descriptions being provided at the time of release in the usual list of system developments document that you’ll find in the TRICS Library module).

Firstly, we’re introducing the option for users to view a modal split for any individual site for a peak hour of activity, as an alternative to the modal split for the whole survey duration. So when viewing an individual site you will be able to click on the “Modal Split” icon and then decide whether you want to see the pie chart for the whole survey or for its busiest hour.

We’re adding a “Number of Days” column to our trip rate graphs, to provide users with a bit more clarification (this already appears on the calculation results screen),

We’re introducing a home deliveries data field for food superstores, to identify what stores offer this service to customers. All new foodstores entering the database will be subject to this new data field.

Also, when exporting TRICS outputs to Excel, we will now be enhancing this so that the selections made, the TRICS version number, and the trip rate parameters used are also exported along with the actual results tables. Again, this will provide users and recipients of data with greater clarity.

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There are some further enhancements shown on this slide. We are introducing the option to export all results by mode simultaneously to Excel, which will save users significant time. At the moment you can calculate results by mode for our PDF outputs, but adding this to Excel exports will I am sure be a popular development for users.

There is also going to be further clarification on food superstores with petrol stations, categorising sites by three options. These will be sites without a PFS, sites with a PFS that has been excluded from the survey, and sites with a PFS that has been included in the survey.

We’re going to make the system default to automatically removing earlier duplicate sites in the event that a survey and its re-survey are both included in a selected set of sites for calculation, in line with our Good Practice Guide.

Another thing that we’re going to do is add a user’s name to the log in process. The reason for this is so that user organisations can see who is using TRICS when they log on. This will be particularly helpful to Single User licence sites who can only operate TRICS one user at a time.

And finally, we’re going to make the definitions of the TRICS location types clearer to users.

So, as you can see there has been plenty going on in terms of system development, and of course we’re looking to put together a new programme of developments for the coming months following the results of our annual User Survey. If you haven’t completed it online please do so, as everyone’s opinion counts and we really do want to hear your ideas for future improvements.

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Now I want to introduce you to TRICS 7, which is a project to redesign the TRICS user interface and enhance the feel of the whole system to make it more user friendly and intuitive. We are currently at an early stage in the development of this redesign, having been recently investigating system framework options, and JMP are due to write an assessment report in July that will pave the way for the next stages, but we can offer you a glimpse at the TRICS 7 concept this morning.

During this afternoon’s open forum session everyone will have the chance to give us their ideas and discuss these as a group, but for now I’d like to go through a few mock-up screenshots to give you a first glance at the kind of thing we are looking at introducing. We’ve actually made some minor tweaks already to the example you are about to see, but this gives a good initial view of how we see the layout and design of TRICS evolving.

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