Study on the requirements for virtual traffic experimental environment for prior evaluation of traffic operation policy in expressways

Abstract

It is necessary to conduct the traffic operation policy using intelligent transportation systems technologies, if road network will be used effectively under implementing the expressway’s network. On the other hand, it is necessary to evaluate the effective and safety of this policy in advance using virtual traffic experimental environment such as driving simulator in case of no precedent policy. In this study, traffic operation policy, items which should be evaluated, function and performance required of virtual traffic experimental environment, and elemental technologies and logical models were studied for prior evaluation of traffic operation policy of efficient utilization of expressway’s network.