Virtual lanes interest for motorcycles simulation

Driving simulators are used in many domains such as driving psychology, ergonomics, training. To be the most realistic, a driving simulator needs both good quality of 3D visual rendering and good quality of the associated traffic simulation. This work takes place in the traffic simulation framework, more precisely on the moving level of the motorized two-wheels vehicles. Indeed, these users are not present in the current traffic simulation because of their atypical movings. We support that the environment structured by the road marking is not adapted to the motorcycles. In this article, we propose a model where the motorcyclist dynamically structures the road using virtual lanes built according to the presents actors. The problem of the contra-flow traffic will not be treated here. We offer in particular a lane changing algorithm which allows this kind of vehicle to move efficiently in heavy traffic. Eventually, we validate experimentally our algorithm: we highlight the microscopics characteristics binded to this type of vehicle by comparing real data and results of the simulation.