Introduction to Traffic

Microsimulation
Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering
CETRAN30

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 Traffic Microsimulation
▪ Simulates the behavior of individual vehicles within a predefined road
network, and

▪ Used to predict the likely impact of changes in traffic patterns resulting

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 Microsimulation Areas
▪ Evaluate the performance of traffic lights
▪ Vehicle route
▪ Traffic effects of autonomous vehicles and platoons
▪ Parking traffic
▪ Railway traffic (for AI-dispatching)
▪ Traffic safety and risk analysis
▪ Calculation of emissions (noise and pollutants)

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▪ Free and open-source traffic simulation suite
▪ Allows modelling of intermodal traffic systems - including road
vehicles, public transport and pedestrians
▪ SUMO can be enhanced with custom models and provides various
Application Programming Interface (APIs) to remotely control the
simulation

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 Essential tools for the course:
1. SUMO package
(https://sumo.dlr.de/docs/Downloads.php)

2. Text editor – Notepad++

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 Basic Elements of Models
1. Nodes and Edges
(https://sumo.dlr.de/docs/Networks/PlainXML.html)

2. Definition of Vehicles, Vehicle Types, Routes

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Creating Simple Network
Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering
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 Creating and Formatting Nodes
Node syntax:

<node id="<STRING>" x="<FLOAT>" y="<FLOAT>" [type="<TYPE>"]/>

#[] – optional attributes

Reference: https://sumo.dlr.de/docs/Networks/PlainXML.html

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 4(500,0)

1(-500,0) 2(500,0) 3(1000,0)

5(500,0)
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Node types

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 Creating and Formatting Edges
Edge syntax:

<edge id="<STRING>" from="<NODE_ID>" to="<NODE_ID>"

#[] – optional attributes

Reference: https://sumo.dlr.de/docs/Networks/PlainXML.html

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Origin-Destination to Trip
Simulation
Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering
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Pre-requisite files:
1. Node file (.nod.xml)
2. Edge file (.edg.xml)
3. Network file (.net.xml)

Optional:
1. Connection file (.con.xml)
2. Type file (.typ.xml)

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 Procedures
0. Network file (.net.xml)

1. Create Traffic Analysis Zone file, TAZ (.xml)

2. Create Origin-Destination Matrix file, OD (.od)

3. Create the od2trips.config file (.xml)

4. Create the duarouter.config file (.duacfg)

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 Example
2 km 2 km 2 km 2 km
3 6 9 12 15
B C
1 km D

2 5 8 11 14

1.5 km E

A
1 4 7 10 13

O\D A B C D E
A - 100 200 150 175
B 50 - 75 125 100
OD Trips during
C 250 50 - 80 100
peak hour
D 100 200 175 - 150
E 125 75 200 300 - MSDS
 1.) Traffic Assignment Zone (TAZ)
Definition
<additional>
<tazs>
<taz id=“t1” edges=“put_your_edge_id_here”>
</taz>
<taz id=“t2” edges=“put_your_edge_id_here”>
</taz>
<taz id=“t3” edges=“put_your_edge_id_here”>
</taz>
<taz id=“t4” edges=“put_your_edge_id_here”>
</taz>
…

</tazs>
</additional>

File name: TAZ_file.taz.xml

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2.) Origin-Destination (OD) Matrix
$O;D2
* From-Time To-Time
0.00 1.00
* Factor
1.00
*
* some
* additional
* comments
t1 t2 200
t1 t12 500
…
t12 t1 1000

File name: OD_file.od

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 3.) Origin-Destination to Trips
Configuration
<configuration>
<input>
<taz-files value=“TAZ_file.taz.xml"/>
<od-matrix-files value=“OD_file.od"/>
</input>

<!--
<output>
<output-file value=“od_file.odtrips.xml"/>
</output>
-->
</configuration>

File name: od2trips. config.xml

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 Trip Generation from OD Matrix
(feed to Command line, cmd)
od2trips –c PATH\od2trips.config.xml –n PATH\taz_file.taz.xml –d
PATH\OD_file.od –o PATH\od_file.odtrips.xml

+ +
TAZ_file.taz.xml OD_file.od od2trips.config.xml

=
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Od_file.odtrips.xml
 4. Create DUAROUTER
Configuration
<configuration>

<!-- The duarouter configuration file takes as input in your network and the OD
Trips File and output the route file -->

<input>
<net-file value="road.net.xml"/>
<route-files value="road.odtrips.xml"/>
</input>

<output>
<output-file value="road.odtrips.rou.xml"/>
</output>

<report>
<xml-validation value="never"/>
<no-step-log value="true"/>
</report>

</configuration>

File name: duarcfg_file.trip2routes.duarcfg

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 Route Assignment using DUAROUTER
(feed to Command line, cmd)
duarouter –c PATH\duarcfg_file.trip2routes.duarcfg –o
od_route_file.odtrips.rou.xml

+ =
Network_file.net.xml od_file.odtrips.xml od_route_file.odtrips.rou.xml

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 5. Rewrite SUMO Configuration file
<configuration>

<input>
<net-file value=“network_file.net.xml"/>
<route-files value=“od_route_file.odtrips.rou.xml"/>
</input>

<time>
<begin value="0"/>
<end value=“_user-specific_input"/>
</time>

</configuration>

File_name: config_file.sumocfg

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