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To understand simulation, it is important to understand the concept of system state, which is a set of variables that contains enough information to describe the evolution of the system over time. [3] System state can be either discrete or continuous. Traffic simulation models are classified according to discrete and continuous time, state, and ...
Microsimulation is the use of computerized analytical tools to perform analysis of activities such as highway traffic flowing through an intersection, financial transactions, or pathogens spreading disease through a population on the granularity level of individuals. Synonyms include microanalytic simulation [1] and microscopic simulation. [2]
Simulation of Urban MObility - an open-source traffic simulation package. SOFA - an open-source framework for multi-physics simulation with an emphasis on medical simulation. SU2 code - an open-source framework for computational fluid dynamics simulation and optimal shape design. Step - an open-source two-dimensional physics simulation engine ...
Traffic modeling draws heavily on theoretical foundations like network theory and certain theories from physics like the kinematic wave model. The interesting quantity being modeled and measured is the traffic flow , i.e. the throughput of mobile units (e.g. vehicles ) per time and transportation medium capacity (e.g. road or lane width).
PTV Vissim is a microscopic multi-modal traffic flow simulation software package developed by PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG in Karlsruhe, Germany. It was first developed in 1992. The name is derived from "Verkehr In Städten - SIMulationsmodell" (German for "Traffic in cities - simulation model").
TSIS-CORSIM is a microscopic traffic simulation software package for signal systems, highway systems, freeway systems, or combined signal, highway and freeway systems. CORSIM (CORridor SIMulation) consists of an integrated set of two microscopic simulation models that represent the entire traffic environment. NETSIM represents traffic on urban ...
TRANSIMS (TRansportation ANalysis SIMulation System) is an integrated set of tools developed to conduct regional transportation system analyses. With the goal of establishing TRANSIMS as an ongoing public resource available to the transportation community, TRANSIMS is made available under the NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.3
Microscopic traffic flow models are a class of scientific models of vehicular traffic dynamics. In contrast, to macroscopic models , microscopic traffic flow models simulate single vehicle-driver units, so the dynamic variables of the models represent microscopic properties like the position and velocity of single vehicles.