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The microscopic simulation of urban traffic enables the evaluation
of traffic control strategies before they are actually deployed in
real life.
The HUTSIM
simulator, developed by the
Helsinki University of
Technology, has been used in such a capacity for several years
by a number of research and commercial organisations including:
Finnish and Swedish Road Administration;
TFK - Transport Research Institute, Sweden;
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden;
TRL - Transport Research Laboratory, UK;
Mott - McDonald, UK;
many cities in Finland and Scandinavia;
and users in USA, Japan and UK.
However, the computational complexity of the simulation task places a limit on the number of vehicles that can be realistically simulated on a single computer.
This project is developing a distributed computing framework within
which a number of HUTSIM simulators can cooperate in performing a
large scale microscopic simulations. The framework is based on
the
Distributed Memory Environment (DIME) developed at the Nottingham
Trent University and it provides not only the ability to connect
several PC-based HUTSIM simulators but also to link to the actual
SCOOT traffic control system at the
Nottingham Traffic Control Centre.
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