An Introduction of Route Choice Model into Microscopic Road Traffic Simulator MITRAM and Its Verification

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a route choice behavior model of the car drivers in road traffic, which is introduced into our developing microscopic road traffic simulator MITRAM for investigating the effects of road traffic information on its traffic circumstances. The developed model has its struncture of connecting some fuzzy inferences in the form of network, which is shown to be effective in modeling the route choice behaviors including some uncertain factors.
The model is verified using a benchmark test which is populor one. In two simulations by MITRAM, we investigate the effects of the differences in driver's decisions for route choices, and of providing and non-providing the drivers with the road traffic information on the traffic congestion. We show more wide applicability of MITRAM through the simulations.