Simulation and Visualization of Empirical Traffic Models Using VISSIM

Micro-simulation based traffic models such as VISSIM and Paramics are becoming increasingly popular for the development and evaluation of a broad range of road traffic management and control proposals in recent years. However, in finding the optimised signal plans for networked signals, empirical traffic models such as TRANSYT and LINSIG are still the packages to rely on. In the day to day work of modelling road traffic network, it is highly desirable that these two packages can communicate with each other. While the simulation package can get the signal plan from TRANSYT, the TRANSYT models can be visualised in the simulation packages and be developed further.