A GENERAL PURPOSE DIGITAL TRAFFIC SIMULATOR

THE VEHICLE TRAFFIC SIMULATOR DESCRIBED IN THIS PAPER IS DESIGNED TO FACILITATE ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC FLOW AND TO EXPERIMENT WITH POSTULATED TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS. IT OFFERS USERS MUCH FLEXIBILITY IN SPECIFYING NETWORK, INTERSECTION, TURN, CHANGE VELOCITY (INCLUDING REACTION AND ACCELERATION DELAYS), AND MERGE. INPUTS MAY BE VARIED, TURNS MAY BE ELIMINATED AND VEHICLES MAY BE ROUTED THROUGH THE NETWORK. THE USER SUPPLIES THE GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND INPUT INFORMATION UNIQUE TO HIS PARTICULAR NETWORK IN DATA CARDS FOR THE PROGRAM. SOME APPLICATIONS TO REAL TRAFFIC NETWORKS (INCLUDING A VALIDATION PROCEDURE) AND SOME SIMPLE CONTROL EXPERIMENTS ARE DISCUSSED. THE MODEL, PROGRAMMED IN A SPECIAL VERSION OF GPSS II AND IN FAP FOR THE IBM 7090/94 SYSTEMS, CAN BE USED IN THE SIMULATION OF SINGLE INTERSECTIONS, ARTERIAL ROUTES, GRID NETWORKS, AND THROUGHWAYS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • P-22, pp 10-25
• Corporate Authors:

  Society Automotive Engineers

  /Conference Proceedings
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • Blum, A M
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Computer programs; Digital computers; Intersections; Networks; Roads; Simulation; Streets; Through traffic; Traffic control; Traffic flow; Traffic simulation; Training simulators
• Old TRIS Terms: Roadnet; Traffic control systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00227190
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Traffic Systems Reviews & Abstracts
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 13 2004 6:48PM