Caliper Corporation was founded in 1983 as a developer of mapping software and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

TransCAD includes trip generation, distribution, mode choice, and traffic assignment models that support transportation planning and travel demand forecasting.

TransCAD has a set of dynamic segmentation and linear referencing tools for managing highway, rail, pipeline, and other networks.

By 2001, Caliper's new redistricting mapping technology was being used by over fifty percent of the United States's legislatures to draft new electoral district boundaries following the 1999 census.

[6] In 2011, California established a citizens redistricting commission that used Maptitude to successfully redraw the maps.