A demonstration of MNTG - A web-based road network traffic generator

Author

Mokbel, Mohamed F. ; Alarabi, Louai ; Jie Bao ; Eldawy, Ahmed ; Magdy, Ahmed ; Sarwat, Mohamed ; Waytas, Ethan ; Yackel, Steven

Author_Institution

Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

March 31 2014-April 4 2014

Firstpage

1246

Lastpage

1249

Abstract

This demo presents Minnesota Traffic Generator (MNTG); an extensible web-based road network traffic generator. MNTG enables its users to generate traffic data at any arbitrary road networks with different traffic generators. Unlike existing traffic generators that require a lot of time/effort to install, configure, and run, MNTG is a web service with a user-friendly interface where users can specify an arbitrary spatial region, select a traffic generator, and submit their traffic generation request. Once the traffic data is generated by MNTG, users can then download and/or visualize the generated data. MNTG can be extended to support: (1) various traffic generators. It is already shipped with the two most common traffic generators, Brinkhoff and BerlinMOD, but other generators can be easily added. (2) various road network sources. It is shipped with U.S. Tiger files and OpenStreetMap, but other sources can be also added. A beta version of MNTG is launched at: http://mntg.cs.umn.edu.

Keywords

Web services; data visualisation; road traffic; user interfaces; BerlinMOD; Brinkhoff; MNTG; Minnesota Traffic Generator; OpenStreetMap; US Tiger files; Web service; Web-based road network traffic generator; data visualization; road network sources; traffic generation request; user-friendly interface; Data mining; Data visualization; Databases; Electronic mail; Generators; Roads; Standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering (ICDE), 2014 IEEE 30th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDE.2014.6816752

Filename

6816752