Development of Japan Nation-wide Traffic Simulation System with Grid Computing

Abstract

This study was to develop a traffic simulation system which covers Japan nationwide road network. As for the execution of such huge scale traffic simulation, there are barriers of the computing resources, such as memory size and calculation speed. To overcome those barriers, we have extend the existing traffic simulation software with the promising grid computing technology. In this paper, we divide the target area of the OD table describes the system behavior and vehicle information exchange between the computer, be completed by dividing a area reported a method using the OD table.