Application of cellular automata for urban traffic simulation

The article presents the problems of applying cellular automata to perform microscopic modeling and simulation of traffic flow for a real fragment of a network. First, the issues of traffic modeling and simulation are outlined, and the TRANSIMS system is presented. The following part describes the progress of work on the model, followed by simulation results along with a discussion of the model calibration process. Next, the authors conducted a brief analysis of the results and related them to the real state and the results obtained using the SUMO system. The article concludes with a summary of the work carried out.APPLICATION OF CELLULAR AUTOMATA TO SIMULATION OF URBAN TRAFFIC
The paper concerns an application of cellular automata to microscopic modeling and simulation of urban traffic flow on a fragment of a real road network. First, the problem of traffic flow modeling and simulation, and TRANSIMS system were introduced. Afterwards, a process of model construction and simulation results were presented. The authors discussed the issue of model calibration, and then conducted a results analysis, with a reference to the real state, and with a comparison to the outcome obtained by means of SUMO system.
The paper ends with a summary of the conducted research.
1. MODELING AND SIMULATION
Reliably describing road traffic is not a trivial task. So far, many models describing the movement of a stream of vehicles have been developed; unfortunately, none of them can be called ideal or universal. (…)

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