Ontology Driven Data Sharing between Microscopic Traffic Simulation and GIS

Ontologies are put forward to resolve the problem of information integration and heterogeneous knowledge sharing. Aiming at the issue of data redundancy and inefficient sharing, we propose a data sharing framework of microscopic traffic simulation and GIS based on ontology driven. The building process of requirement, analysis, design and implementation of the microscopic traffic simulation ontology (MTSON) based on iterative is presented in the paper. Ontology Web Language is used for the formal description of MTSON. The validation of MTSON and the mapping from MTSON to XML schema are also discussed.