SMARTEST - Development of Strategies Designed to Avoid the Need for Road Travel
Overview
Background & policy context:
The development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and the application in traffic management, control and information, help make more efficient use of the existing road infrastructure and reduce congestion and externalities. Micro-simulation can provide a more effective tool than traditional traffic model for the assessment of the effectiveness of ITS, which often requires interaction between individual vehicles and the new systems to be modelled. Micro-simulation can be used to develop new ITS systems, optimise their effectiveness and provide realistic training for system operators and users prior to operation in the real world.
Objectives:
The SMARTEST project was directed towards modelling and simulation at micro level of dynamic traffic management problems caused by incidents, heavy traffic, accidents and road works. The SMARTEST application areas are incident management, intersection control, motorway flow control, dynamic route guidance and regional traffic information.
The SMARTEST specific objectives were to:
- review current micro-simulation models and identify gaps;
- investigate how the existing models can be enhanced to fill the identified gaps;
- incorporate the findings into a best practice manual.
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