CONGESTION ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION BY TRAFFIC SIMULATION

Traffic simulators are useful for modeling and analyzing complicated congestion problems and they help in planning a new road network. They also have the potential to evaluate traffic system performance, such as traffic signal settings and the effect of traffic information provision systems. However, conventional traffic simulators do not consider several key factors, such as buses, parking vehicles, and pedestrians. User interface is another weak point. The authors of this paper developed a traffic simulator that is suitable to evaluate and estimate the effects of several key factors. The traffic simulator has three main characteristics. First, it adopts an event driven method in which objects in the simulator, such as vehicles and traffic signals, change their current status only when events are given to them. Second, it contains detailed traffic flow modeling, such as parking vehicles, public transportation, vehicle-following model, and pedestrians. Finally, numerous data can be input to the simulator in a shorter time by using graphical user interface. The authors have attempted to simulate several actual traffic networks. The effect of a parking vehicle is shown visually. By combining with the offset optimizing program, the optimum signal parameters can be generated.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Five volumes of papers and one volume of abstracts comprise the published set of conference materials.
• Corporate Authors:

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  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • Hotta, M
  • Yokota, T
  • NAGAI, T
  • Inoue, T
• Conference:
  • Steps Forward. Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress
  • Location: Yokohama, Japan
  • Date: 1995-11-9 to 1995-11-11
• Publication Date: 1995-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 2062

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dynamic models; Graphics; Intelligent transportation systems; Interfaces; Networks; Planning; Roads; Simulation; Traffic control; Traffic flow; Training simulators
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Old TRIS Terms: Graphic techniques; Traffic control systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00724453
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 4
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 23 1996 12:00AM