SUMO is an open source traffic simulation package including net import and demand modeling components. We describe the current state of the package as well as future developments and extensions. SUMO helps to investigate several research topics e.g. route choice and traffic light algorithm or simulating vehicular communication. Therefore the framework is used in different projects to simulate a...

This paper illustrates how general-purpose simulation and visualization tools primarily designed to study construction operations can be effectively used to model and animate vehicular traffic flows in urban transportation networks. A high-fidelity simulation model and a corresponding 3D visualization describing traffic flow at a busy 3-way signalized intersection are presented. The model and a...

Traffic simulation is an important tool for modelling the operations of dynamic traffic systems and helps analyse the causes and potential solutions of traffic problems such as congestion and traffic safety. Microscopic simulation models provide a detailed representation of the traffic process, which makes them most suitable for evaluation of complicated traffic facilities and Intelligent Trans...

We built a multiagent simulation of urban traffic to model both ordinary traffic and emergency or crisis mode traffic. This simulation first builds a modeled road network based on detailed geographical information. On this network, the simulation creates two populations of agents: the Transporters and the Mobiles. Transporters embody the roads themselves; they are utilitarian and meant to handl...

The objective of this research is to present a methodology to supplement the conventional traffic safety analysis techniques. This methodology aims at using computer simulation to animate and visualize accident occurrence at high-risk locations. It aids into developing the appropriate safety countermeasures for high-risk locations (e.g., intersections, curves, ramps). A computer accident simula...

The paper presents a platform, named Parallel Internet Traffic Simulator (PITS), which allows simulating Internet traffic and accurately replicating appropriate stochastic processes using scale-free models with self-similar topology. The experiments compare simulation of large-size scale-free networks when using different number of CPU's running in parallel in the platform cluster and note the ...

Traffic simulation systems are widely used for the prediction of certain effects like traffic jam formation or the analysis of performance for new traffic light systems. Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are important measurements. This work integrates a physical model for fuel consumption into a microscopic traffic simulation system for urban scenarios. The parameters of the model are discuss...

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is assumed to have a potential to improve quality-of-service and safety and to reduce the environmental impact of the road traffic system. This paper use vehicle trajectories from traffic simulation to study impacts of ACC on vehicle acceleration and deceleration rates. The analysis is based on traffic simulations with car-following models including ACC functionali...

A b s w 6 In USA, trailic simulation was originally developed to evaluate the traffic signal control system in the 1970s by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). This paper fin1 introduces the traflic signal control system software development process developed a t Traffic Research Laboratory, in which trailic simulation is integrated to develop, debug, test and evaluate traflic signal con...

We consider the process of setting up a traffic simulation based on traffic measurements. This process consists of several steps: data acquisition, interfacing, data conditioning, modeling and simulation. We discuss some important aspects that should be taken into account in each step of the process, and we also illustrate the entire process using a real-life traffic example.