Title :
VATSIM: a Vehicle And Traffic SIMulator
Author :
Redmill, Keith A. ; Özgüner, Ümit
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We have implemented a road and vehicle simulation software package that is suitable for evaluating the modeling and control issues that arise in automated highway and intelligent transportation system studies and demonstrations involving multiple interacting autonomous vehicles. The simulator provides for a user-specified roadway layout, which can include both highways and surface roads, and multiple classes of vehicle and controller models that can be multiply instantiated to create a world of interacting individual agents. The simulator provides a graphical interface for the visualization of results, data storage for post-simulation analysis, and some user interaction
Keywords :
automated highways; control system analysis computing; data visualisation; digital simulation; engineering graphics; graphical user interfaces; interactive systems; road traffic; road vehicles; software packages; traffic engineering computing; VATSIM; Vehicle and Traffic Simulator; automated highways; controller models; data storage; graphical interface; intelligent transportation systems; interacting individual agents; multiple model instantiation; post-simulation analysis; results visualization; road traffic simulation; road vehicle simulation; simulation software package; surface roads; traffic control; user interaction; user-specified roadway layout; vehicle models; Automated highways; Automatic control; Intelligent transportation systems; Intelligent vehicles; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Software packages; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/IEEJ/JSAI International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4975-X
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.1999.821139
