TRITRAM: LINKING A PROCESS BASED TRAFFIC SIMULATION TO AN ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC CONTROLLER

The TRITRAM (Traveller Information and Traffic Management) project uses high performance traffic and road network simulation to investigate the next generation of traffic management systems. The simulation software incorporates mesoscopic and microscopic models of traffic flow. It is implemented using object-oriented, process-based discrete event simulation methods in C++. TRITRAM runs on powerful workstation processors, permitting simulation of complex networks, and has an interface enabling connection to an external adaptive traffic controller (SCATS). During simulation, stop-line detectors are triggered by the simulated vehicles and thereby provide traffic flow data. This data can be transmitted to a SCATS regional controller, which in turn coordinates the simulated traffic lights. The paper describes experience gained during software development. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, see IRRD abstract 868345.

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• Authors:
  • MATHIESON, I D
  • SMITH, J L
  • Nguyen, N
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY TO TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, MAY 1995, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: VOLUME 1
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 227-36

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Area traffic signal control; Computer programs; Conferences; Detectors; Intelligent transportation systems; Mathematical models; Traffic flow; Vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 669: Area traffic control; 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 6473: Mathematical model; 6120: Sensor; 8645: Software; 671: Traffic flow; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00722236
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-86910-663-5
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 28 1996 12:00AM