PARALLEL SIMULATION OF FREEWAY TRAFFIC FLOWS ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER-BASED, DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM

A personal computer (PC)-based, parallel simulation system for freeway traffic flows is being developed with a network of PCs under the WindowsNT environment. Basic segment types of a freeway were identified and existing macroscopic models were modified for each segment type. The computational cost of each segment type was then determined by performing a complexity analysis based on Pentium-processor PCs. The parallel algorithm first divides the whole section of a given freeway into multiple subsections depending on the number of PCs available in a network and the computational complexity of each subsection. Each subsection traffic flows are simulated in parallel and the data at the internal boundaries between two consecutive subsections are exchanged through a communication function at every time step. The algorithm is currently being tested with a network of Pentium-processor PCs using a 20 mile section of the I-494 freeway in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as an example.

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• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Kwon, E
  • Yoo, K
  • Park, Hong-Gun
• Conference:
  • Intelligent Transportation: Realizing the Future. Abstracts of the Third World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Orlando, Florida
  • Date: 1996-10-14 to 1996-10-18
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Computers; Distributed processing; Freeways; Parallel processing; Personal computers; Traffic simulation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Computer systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00741699
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 6 1997 12:00AM