You can do a lot of analysis for urban planning. ArcGIS is a very powerful piece software that will handle mapping and some types of analysis. And i2maps is a g

You can do a lot of analysis for urban planning. ArcGIS is a very powerful piece software that will handle mapping and some types of analysis. And i2maps is a geocomputing environment that will handle traffic analysis Microsimulation of Seattle traffic: http://ncg.nuim.ie/i2maps/projects/transportation/index.html http://ncg.nuim.ie/i2maps/projects/transportation/index.html Foot traffic simulation: http://ncg.nuim.ie/i2maps/projects/simcampus/index.html http://ncg.nuim.ie/i2maps/projects/simcampus/index.html