Aimsun Live was launched in 2008 and is now fully deployed on Interstate 15 in San Diego, Grand Lyon in France, and other locations worldwide.

Using up-to-date field data, Aimsun Live identifies, retrieves, and loads a travel demand matrix for the road network being managed.

It finds the closest match between the data received in real time and several demand patterns stored in a database.

It is typically defined using equilibrium assignment techniques, which evaluate at a high level the impact of local but significant capacity changes on the rest of the network.

Simulations typically last 1–3 minutes[1] depending on hardware specifications, network size and level of congestion (number of vehicles).