The Downtown Miami Transportation Master Plan (DMTMP) was a comprehensive study of transportation options for downtown Miami through the year 2020.  As part of this study, DPA developed and evaluated a variety of multi-modal alternatives to service this two square mile area that included the downtown core, as well as, the Brickell, Omni and Overtown / Parkwest areas.

The DMTMP was developed to establish the general framework for future transportation system improvements in downtown Miami and to generate a series of more specific transportation recommendations for the area through 2020. The  recommendations resulted from multiple analyses of the downtown transportation system at different levels of development projected for the year 2020, using a state-of-the-art micro-simulation transportation model called Paramics.  Paramics, with its ability to model large networks, was used to replicate traffic conditions down to the individual vehicle level on each roadway in the study area.  This micro-simulation model incorporated a transit component in order to model the Metrorail and Metromover.  The model also had the capability to simulate unique traffic characteristics in downtown Miami such as the traffic congestion caused by the opening of the Brickell Bridge.  The downtown Miami Paramics micro-simulation network is one of the largest in the United States, with over 360 intersections and seven modes of travel.