Title :
An open interface for parallelization of traffic simulation
Author :
Igbe, Damian ; Kalantery, Nasser ; Ijaha, Stephen ; Winter, Stephen
Author_Institution :
Centre for Parallel Comput., Westminster Univ., London, UK
Abstract :
In this paper, we present the implementation of a parallel road traffic simulation using the concept of lane cut points (LCP) in the Spider programming environment. LCP are storage buffers inserted into lane data structures at the road network partition edges. Vehicles enter a partition at the edges from an LCP and exit a partition edge into an LCP at the end of every simulation step. Spider, a parallel programming environment, which runs on PVM, coordinates the execution of the parallel traffic simulation.
Keywords :
digital simulation; parallel programming; programming environments; road traffic; traffic engineering computing; LCP; Spider programming; lane cut points; open interface; parallel programming; parallel simulation; road network; road traffic simulation; storage buffers; Buffer storage; Computational modeling; Costs; Data structures; Microscopy; Roads; Scalability; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications, 2003. Proceedings. Seventh IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2036-7
DOI :
10.1109/DISRTA.2003.1243010
