A traffic analysis of a wide urban area by microscopic road traffic simulator -MITRAM

Abstract

Congestion problem in the road traffic is a major factor that causesvarious serious social issues such as the environmental contamination,the economic problems, etc.Therefore, corresponding policies are in demand to solve thecongestion problem by means of the maintenance of the road conditionsand the optimization of the traffic signals.But before the policies are established, we need a verification of theeffectiveness of the decisions, where a valid approach is a roadtraffic simulation.In this paper, a road traffic model, which is mainly composed of roadintersections as its major objects, has been proposed for thesimulation of the large-area road traffic.The road model is used in MITRAM, the microscopic road trafficsimulator, which has been well developed by us. And the large-areaurban road traffic is simulated using this model.