Experiences with a Simplified Microsimulation for the Dallas/Fort-Worth Area

Abstract

We describe a simple framework for microsimulation of city traffic. A medium sized excerpt of Dallas was used to examine different levels of simulation fidelity of a cellular automaton method for the traffic flow simulation and a simple intersection model. We point out problems arising with the granular structure of the underlying rules of motion.

Traffic and related self-driven many-particle systems

“…These also discuss the available software packages for the simulation and optimization of street networks and/or signalling of traffic lights such as TRANSYT (Robertson, 1969a, b), SCOOT (Hunt et al, 1982), OPAC (Gartner, 1983), PRODYN (Farges et al, 1984), CRONOS (Boillot et al, 1992), and many others. I should also mention the cellular-automatabased projects OLSIM (Kaumann et al, 2000; see http://www.traffic.uni-duisburg.de/OLSIM/) and TRANSIMS (Nagel and Barrett, 1997;Rickert and Nagel, 1997;Simon and Nagel, 1998; see http://www-transims. tsasa.lanl.…”

Equilibrium Properties of the Cellular Automata Models for Traffic Flow in a Single Lane

“…These proposals of microscopic traffic models stimulated an enormous amount of research activity, aimed at understanding and controlling traffic instabilities, which are responsible for stop-and-go traffic and congestion, both on freeways (Sasvári & Kertész, 1997) and in cities (Helbing, 2001). Since then, cellular automata became popular for the microscopic simulation of traffic flow (Vilar & de Souza, 1994;Chowdhury et al, 2000;Helbing, 2001;Nagatani, 2002;Nagel et al, 2003;Maerivoet & De Moor, 2005), including multilane highways (Wagner et al, 1997;Nagel et al, 1998;Chowdhury et al, 2000;Nagel et al, 2003;Maerivoet & De Moor, 2005) and complex urban traffic networks (Fukui & Ishibashi, 1996b;Esser & Schreckenberg, 1997;Rickert & Nagel, 1997;Nagel & Barrett, 1997;Maerivoet & De Moor, 2005). Nowadays, there exist an overwhelming number of proposals and publications in this field.…”

Fuzzy Cellular Model for On-Line Traffic Simulation

“…The simplest cellular model of a crossroad [15] did not take into account region inside the junction as well as priority rules. Vehicles were just randomly selected to pass the crossroad.…”