VATSIM: a simulator for vehicles and traffic

Author

Lei, Jia ; Redmill, Keith ; Ozguner, Umit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

686

Lastpage

691

Abstract

A vehicle and traffic simulator (VATSIM) has been developed for modeling automated vehicles with different sensors and controllers and traffic networks with real-time traffic control and route guidance. VATSIM simulates vehicle with movement, such as lane following, lane changing, vehicle following and intersection stopping, and is able to evaluate different controllers and sensors for vehicles. VATSIM represents traffic networks in detail such that it can also simulate different kinds of traffic flow movement and evaluate the effects of different traffic control methods and routing strategies. Implementation examples and analysis show that VATSIM can be used to evaluate different kinds of intelligent transportation system solutions

Keywords

database management systems; digital simulation; navigation; road traffic; traffic control; traffic engineering computing; ITS; VATSIM; databases; lane following; real-time systems; road vehicle; route guidance; traffic control; traffic networks; vehicle traffic simulator; Automatic control; Communication system traffic control; Computational modeling; Databases; Intelligent transportation systems; Intelligent vehicles; Road transportation; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

Oakland, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7194-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2001.948743

Filename

948743