Caliper

Caliper Corporation is a privately held American software company founded in 1983 and headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. It is recognized worldwide as a leader and innovator in the development of transportation analysis and mapping, redistricting, transportation, traffic simulation, and geographic information system (GIS) software. For more than 40 years, Caliper software, data analytics, and professional services have been used to make business and government operations more effective and efficient. The company's product portfolio spans two broad areas. On the business mapping side, Maptitude is an all-in-one desktop GIS that combines software and geographic data for market analysis, territory and route optimization, site selection, and data visualization; Maptitude Online extends this to a cloud-based SaaS offering, and Maptitude for Redistricting and Maptitude for Precinct and Election Management serve political and electoral users. On the transportation side, TransCAD is a travel demand modeling package, TransModeler is a traffic simulation tool, and TransModeler SE supports traffic impact analysis. Caliper also offers TransDNA and geographic data products. Caliper's customers include national governments, government agencies of all types, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), planners, consultants, major corporations, and institutions of higher learning around the world. Beyond packaged software, Caliper provides custom GIS application development, web services integration for large enterprises and government organizations, consulting and R&D studies, and redistricting services such as plan conversion, database design, customized data, population estimates and projections, voter registration file analysis, and training. Caliper positions its products as award-winning, market-leading, and easy-to-use, with unequaled analytic capabilities delivered as low-cost solutions accessible to all types of organizations. The company is privately held and operates from its Newton, Massachusetts base, with a sales contact line and email for customer inquiries.

Caliper Corporation was founded in 1983 as a privately held corporation. From its base in Newton, Massachusetts, it grew into a developer of transportation analysis and mapping, redistricting, transportation, traffic simulation, and GIS software, and it is described by the company as recognized worldwide as a leader and innovator in these fields. For more than 40 years, Caliper software, data analytics, and professional services have been used to make business and government more effective and efficient. Caliper built its reputation on geographic information systems and transportation modeling. Its flagship Maptitude Geographic Information System combines software and geographic data into a single, easy-to-use desktop package for business mapping and spatial analysis, and it is offered with a free country data package of the customer's choice. Maptitude Online later extended the platform to the cloud as a mapping SaaS product that lets users share desktop maps with non-users and create many types of business maps. A specialized edition, Maptitude for Redistricting, provides tools to build and analyze redistricting plans, and Maptitude for Precinct and Election Management (Maptitude P&E) combines software, an easy-to-use interface, and customized data for precinct and election work. On the transportation side, Caliper developed TransCAD transportation planning software and TransModeler traffic simulation software, along with TransModeler SE for traffic impact analysis and TransDNA. These tools are used by cities, metropolitan planning organizations, planners, and consultants to plan, model, and simulate passenger and freight transportation projects, evaluate mobility projects, optimize traffic flow, and support efficient, safe transit. Over the decades Caliper expanded beyond packaged software into services. It provides custom GIS application development and web services integration for large enterprises and government organizations, and it conducts consulting studies and R&D that the company says have underpinned major capital investments and advanced the analytical methods available to practitioners for forecasting. For redistricting customers, Caliper offers plan conversion from old census geography to the latest TIGER version and from other redistricting software, database design and development, customized data, population estimates and projections, analysis of statewide voter registration files, conflation of voting results, map customization and printing, custom reports, training, and software customization. Training is offered at the customer's site, remotely online, or at Caliper's training facility in Newton, Massachusetts. Caliper's mapping and GIS software is used by organizations around the world, including national governments, government agencies of all types, major corporations, and numerous institutions of higher learning. The company remains privately held and continues to market Maptitude, TransCAD, and TransModeler as its core product lines.

• 1983

  Caliper Corporation is founded as a privately held corporation.

• Caliper develops Maptitude, an all-in-one desktop GIS combining software and geographic data for business mapping and spatial analysis.

• Caliper releases TransCAD transportation planning software for travel demand modeling.

• Caliper releases TransModeler traffic simulation software, later joined by TransModeler SE for traffic impact analysis.

• Caliper introduces Maptitude Online, a cloud-based mapping SaaS product.

• Caliper offers Maptitude for Redistricting and Maptitude for Precinct and Election Management for political and electoral users.

• Caliper marks more than 40 years of software, data analytics, and professional services for business and government.

Award-winning, market-leading, easy-to-use, low-cost GIS, mapping, redistricting, and transportation planning and simulation software for business and government, backed by data analytics, custom development, and consulting services.

• Maptitude

  All-in-one business mapping and GIS software combining software and geographic data for market analysis, territory and route optimization, site selection, and data visualization; includes one free country data package of the customer's choice.

• Maptitude Online

  Cloud-based mapping SaaS solution that lets users share desktop maps with non-users and create many types of business maps.

• Maptitude for Redistricting

  Special edition of Maptitude with everything needed to build and analyze redistricting plans.

• Maptitude for Precinct and Election Management

  Combines sophisticated software, an easy-to-use interface, and customized data for precinct and election management.

• TransCAD

  Transportation planning software for travel demand modeling, used by cities, MPOs, planners, and consultants.

• TransModeler

  Traffic simulation software for modeling and simulating passenger and freight transportation projects.

• TransModeler SE

  Traffic impact software for traffic analysis.

• TransDNA

  Caliper transportation software product listed among its map software offerings.

1. 1Maptitude GIS & Mapping Software | TransCAD Transportation Software - Calipercaliper.com
2. 2About Caliper Corporationcaliper.com
3. 3Caliper Map Software Productscaliper.com
4. 4Redistricting Servicescaliper.com