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1 Citations
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6 June 2025

As air traffic control (ATC) automation advances, simulation environments become essential for testing and validating novel solutions before deployment. This study presents a modular framework that integrates real air traffic data to simulate control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,836 Views
17 Pages

Research on Using the Tecnomatix Plant Simulation for Simulation and Visualization of Traffic Processes at the Traffic Node

  • Gabriel Fedorko,
  • Vieroslav Molnár,
  • Jan Strohmandl,
  • Petra Horváthová,
  • David Strnad and
  • Vlastimil Cech

27 November 2022

Simulation software Tecnomatix Plant Simulation was originally created for a modelling and subsequent simulation of production and logistics processes. Its variability, however, opens its use also in other areas such as transport in urban agglomerati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,361 Views
20 Pages

An Open-Source Virtual Reality Traffic Co-Simulation for Enhanced Traffic Safety Assessment

  • Ahmad Mohammadi,
  • Muhammed Shijas Babu Cherakkatil,
  • Peter Y. Park,
  • Mehdi Nourinejad and
  • Ali Asgary

26 August 2025

Transportation safety studies identify and analyze different contributing factors affecting the safety of road users using virtual reality (VR) traffic simulations in game engines (e.g., Unity). They often either use simplified VR traffic simulation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,321 Views
16 Pages

17 August 2024

Predicting and assessing urban traffic noise is crucial for environmental management. This paper establishes a traffic noise simulation method based on microscopic traffic simulation, utilizing a traffic simulation under a mixed distribution probabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,728 Views
10 Pages

Modeling and Simulation of a Traffic Flow Model Considering the Influence of Traffic Interruption

  • Shu-Hong Yang,
  • Chui-Gui Li,
  • Dong-Xue Xia,
  • Meng Wang and
  • Xiao-Rong Wang

1 August 2013

In this paper, we present a new lattice model of traffic flow by considering the effects of traffic interruption probability. The stability condition of the proposed model is obtained by employing the linear stability theory. The results show that th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,206 Views
17 Pages

Simulation of Random Events for Air Traffic Applications

  • Stéphane Puechmorel,
  • Guillaume Dufour and
  • Romain Fèvre

Resilience to uncertainties must be ensured in air traffic management. Unexpected events can either be disruptive, like thunderstorms or the famous volcano ash cloud resulting from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland, or simply due to impre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,186 Views
11 Pages

28 January 2021

This article presents the experience of building a simulation scenario of the whole city of Duisburg using real traffic data. The establishment of the simulation scenario is based on road network and traffic volume. In most cases, it is hard to colle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,653 Views
18 Pages

Reducing CO2 emissions is currently a key policy in most developed countries. In this article, we evaluate whether smart traffic lights can have a relevant role in reducing CO2 emissions in small cities, considering their specific traffic profiles. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,955 Views
22 Pages

Post-Earthquake Traffic Simulation Considering Road Traversability

  • Yingying Wu,
  • Zhen Xu,
  • Chenxi Liang and
  • Ruizhuo Song

6 September 2022

Post-earthquake road traversability is a critical factor that affects traffic conditions. Therefore, a post-earthquake traffic simulation method considering road traversability was proposed in this study. First, the impact ranges of the earthquake-in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,699 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2023

Autonomous driving technology will bring revolutionary changes to the development of future cities and transportation. In order to study the impact of autonomous driving on urban transportation networks, this paper first summarizes the development st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,459 Views
30 Pages

16 January 2023

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have the potential to improve traffic conditions and reduce travel delays. As a decision support software system for ITS, DynasTIM is based on the principle of dynamic traffic assignment and developed for real...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,985 Views
25 Pages

School Surrounding Region Traffic Commuting Analysis Based on Simulation

  • Huasheng Liu,
  • Haoran Deng,
  • Yu Li,
  • Yuqi Zhao and
  • Xiaowen Li

Student commuting is an important part of urban travel demand and private car commuting plays an important role in urban traffic, especially in areas near schools. Since parents, especially the parents of elementary and junior high school students, p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,000 Views
22 Pages

Urban Traffic Simulation Using Mobility Patterns Synthesized from Real Sensors

  • Fábio Gonçalves,
  • Gonçalo O. Silva,
  • Alexandre Santos,
  • Ana Maria A. C. Rocha,
  • Hugo Peixoto,
  • Dalila Durães and
  • José Machado

12 December 2023

Smart cities are an ongoing research topic with multiple sub-research areas, from traffic control to optimization and even safety. However, testing the new methodologies or technologies directly in the real world is an almost impossible feat that, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,812 Views
17 Pages

Fluidsim: A Car Traffic Simulation Prototype Based on FluidDynamic

  • Massimiliano Caramia,
  • Ciro D’Apice,
  • Benedetto Piccoli and
  • Antonino Sgalambro

9 August 2010

We present a car traffic simulation prototype for complex networks, that is formed by a collection of roads and junctions. Traffic load evolution is described by a model based on fluid dynamic conservation laws, deduced from conservation of the numbe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,493 Views
15 Pages

Simulation and Experimental Analyses of Microscopic Traffic Characteristics under a Contraflow Strategy

  • Leyu Wei,
  • Jinliang Xu,
  • Tian Lei,
  • Menghui Li,
  • Xingliang Liu and
  • Haoru Li

29 June 2019

Contraflow is a common traffic strategy used to improve the capacity of outbound roads during mass evacuation. Previous studies have focused on the contraflow network configuration, travel time, and number of evacuated vehicles on a macroscopic level...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,679 Views
26 Pages

Validating a Traffic Conflict Prediction Technique for Motorways Using a Simulation Approach

  • Nicolette Formosa,
  • Mohammed Quddus,
  • Alkis Papadoulis and
  • Andrew Timmis

12 January 2022

With the ever-increasing advancements in the technology of driver assistant systems, there is a need for a comprehensive way to identify traffic conflicts to avoid collisions. Although significant research efforts have been devoted to traffic conflic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,028 Views
25 Pages

25 January 2025

This study presents a framework for integrating traffic simulation with high-resolution air pollution modeling to design adaptive traffic management policies aimed at reducing urban air pollution. Building on prior work that establishes the coupling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,049 Views
19 Pages

13 September 2022

Different types of automated vehicles (AVs) have emerged promptly in recent years, each of which might have different potential impacts on traffic flow and emissions. In this paper, the impacts of autonomous automated vehicles (AAVs) and cooperative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,605 Views
12 Pages

Traffic Simulation of Future Intelligent Vehicles in Duisburg City Inner Ring

  • Xiaoyi Ma,
  • Xiaowei Hu,
  • Thomas Weber and
  • Dieter Schramm

23 December 2020

Intelligent vehicles gradually enter the vehicular fleet with advanced driver-assistance technologies. Their impact on traffic should, therefore, be considered by transportation decision-makers. This paper examines the effect of vehicles with differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,887 Views
18 Pages

Human and Environmental Factors Analysis in Traffic Using Agent-Based Simulation

  • Ariadna Claudia Moreno,
  • Mailyn Moreno,
  • Cynthia Porras and
  • Juan Pavón

9 March 2023

Traffic congestion is a frequent problem on most urban roads. This may be due to incorrect configuration of traffic signals but planning analysis should also include a study of human behavior, which, often imprudent, contributes to traffic congestion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,535 Views
15 Pages

A Simulation Model of the Influence of LNG Ships on Traffic Efficiency at Tianjin Port

  • Yanwei Li,
  • Wuliu Tian,
  • Beibei Meng,
  • Jinfen Zhang and
  • Ruisai Zhou

26 February 2024

Tianjin Port is one of the largest ports in northern China. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships are one of the most special ship types, and their navigation safety and efficiency has become the top concern of the port authority. There are two LNG berth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
239 Views
16 Pages

26 January 2026

Long underground expressways have emerged as an alternative to surface highways in densely urbanized areas; however, their enclosed geometry, extended length, and steep longitudinal gradients introduce traffic-flow dynamics distinct from those of sur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,977 Views
25 Pages

Urbanised city transportation simulation needs a wide range of factors to reflect the influence of certain real-life events accurately. The vehicle composition and the timing of the traffic light signal scheduling play an important role in controllin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,622 Views
23 Pages

Automatic Calibration of Microscopic Traffic Simulation Models Using Artificial Neural Networks

  • Rodrigo F. Daguano,
  • Leopoldo R. Yoshioka,
  • Marcio L. Netto,
  • Claudio L. Marte,
  • Cassiano A. Isler,
  • Max Mauro Dias Santos and
  • João F. Justo

29 October 2023

Traffic simulations are valuable tools for urban mobility planning and operation, particularly in large cities. Simulation-based microscopic models have enabled traffic engineers to understand local transit and transport behaviors more deeply and man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,163 Views
14 Pages

Traffic Simulation-Based Approach for A Cradle-to-Grave Greenhouse Gases Emission Model

  • Sergio Maria Patella,
  • Flavio Scrucca,
  • Francesco Asdrubali and
  • Stefano Carrese

10 August 2019

This paper presents a model to evaluate the life cycle greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, expressed in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq), of a generic fleet composition as a function of the traffic simulation results. First we evaluated the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,553 Views
12 Pages

20 October 2022

With the development of intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) and communication technology, collaborative operation among vehicles will become the trend of the future. Thus, traffic flow will be mixed with manual driving vehicles and ICVs. A mixed tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,350 Views
27 Pages

15 June 2023

Computer simulations of traffic and driving provide essential solutions to reduce risk and cost in traffic-related studies and research. Through nearly 90 years of simulation development, many research projects have attempted to improve the various a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,927 Views
18 Pages

Using Probe Counts to Provide High-Resolution Detector Data for a Microscopic Traffic Simulation

  • Tobias Veihelmann,
  • Victor Shatov,
  • Maximilian Lübke and
  • Norman Franchi

28 April 2024

Microscopic traffic simulations have become increasingly important for research targeting connected vehicles. They are especially appreciated for enabling investigations targeting large areas, which would be practically impossible or too expensive in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,252 Views
19 Pages

16 June 2025

As autonomous vehicles (AVs) are gradually integrated into existing traffic systems, understanding their impact on freeway operations becomes essential for effective infrastructure planning and policy design. This study explores how AV penetration ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,309 Views
10 Pages

12 September 2020

The traffic queueing problem usually can be solved by two concepts: static and dynamic mode. Usually, the static mode may not reflect the real-world situation. This encourages us to propose the dynamic adjusting model to solve the traffic queuing pro...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,177 Views
15 Pages

FLAME-GPU for Traffic Systems: A Scalable Agent-Based Simulation Framework

  • Maxim Smilovitskiy,
  • Sedar Olmez,
  • Paul Richmond,
  • Robert Chisholm,
  • Peter Heywood,
  • Alvaro Cabrejas,
  • Sven van den Berghe and
  • Sachio Kobayashi

14 May 2025

Agent-based modelling (ABM) has revolutionised the simulation of complex systems, finding applications in diverse fields such as economic markets and traffic management. By modelling individuals as autonomous agents within a dynamic environment, ABM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,080 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2022

The state of the road network contains both the infrastructure performance and the traffic operation state of the road network. There is a strong coupling between the decay of the infrastructure performance and the redistribution of the traffic flow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,744 Views
29 Pages

Modelling and Simulation of Collaborative Surveillance for Unmanned Traffic Management

  • Juan A. Besada,
  • David Carramiñana,
  • Luca Bergesio,
  • Ivan Campaña and
  • Ana M. Bernardos

15 February 2022

Unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems rely on collaborative position reporting to track unmanned aerial system (UAS) operations over wide unsurveilled (with counter-UAS systems) areas. Many different technologies, such as Remote-ID, ADS-B, FLARM,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,625 Views
21 Pages

A Case Study: Simulation Traffic Model as a Tool to Assess One-Way vs. Two-Way Traffic on Urban Roads around the City Center

  • Peter Bindzar,
  • Janka Saderova,
  • Marian Sofranko,
  • Peter Kacmary,
  • Jaroslaw Brodny and
  • Magdalena Tutak

28 May 2021

This article evaluates changes in the organization of transport on urban roads through the transport model in the OmniTRANS program. The selected location for the case study in this article is the internal traffic circuit of Kosice, which borders the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
207 Views
23 Pages

12 February 2026

Traffic violations represent a significant public health concern, with professional drivers substantially impacting road safety. This pilot study compared self-report questionnaires (general personality versus domain-specific), performance-based test...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
7,944 Views
14 Pages

This paper evaluates the traffic safety of freeway interchange merging areas based on the traffic conflict technique. The hourly composite risk indexes (HCRI) was defined. By the use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photography and video processing t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,525 Views
23 Pages

3 October 2025

In Japan, the shortage of airport ground-handling personnel has become a serious concern with the growing demand for aviation, necessitating improvements in operational efficiency. Accordingly, the expectations for automating aircraft ground support...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,594 Views
19 Pages

26 September 2022

To reveal the impact mechanism of low-speed vehicles (LSVs) on expressway traffic safety, this paper uses the polynomial fitting method to establish evolution models of traffic density and average speed at different LSV speeds in order to explore the...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
813 Views
6 Pages

5 November 2024

In the context of the dynamic transportation system, advancements in modern technological elements have facilitated the real-time, online transmission of vehicle positional data across numerous transport subsectors. Such data can be made accessible i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,854 Views
30 Pages

Review and Simulation of Counter-UAS Sensors for Unmanned Traffic Management

  • Juan A. Besada,
  • Ivan Campaña,
  • David Carramiñana,
  • Luca Bergesio and
  • Gonzalo de Miguel

28 December 2021

Noncollaborative surveillance of airborne UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) is a key enabler to the safe integration of UAS within a UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) ecosystem. Thus, a wide variety of new sensors (known as Counter-UAS sensors) are being...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,029 Views
25 Pages

A Virtual Simulation-Pilot Agent for Training of Air Traffic Controllers

  • Juan Zuluaga-Gomez,
  • Amrutha Prasad,
  • Iuliia Nigmatulina,
  • Petr Motlicek and
  • Matthias Kleinert

In this paper we propose a novel virtual simulation-pilot engine for speeding up air traffic controller (ATCo) training by integrating different state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools. The virtual simulation-pilot engine receives s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,994 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2023

In this paper, a comprehensive deterministic Eco-Driving strategy for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) is presented. In this setup, multiple driving modes calculate speed profiles that are ideal for their own set of constraints simultaneously...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,682 Views
33 Pages

Assessment of the Speed Management Impact on Road Traffic Safety on the Sections of Motorways and Expressways Using Simulation Methods

  • Jacek Oskarbski,
  • Tomasz Kamiński,
  • Kyandoghere Kyamakya,
  • Jean Chamberlain Chedjou,
  • Karol Żarski and
  • Małgorzata Pędzierska

5 September 2020

Methods used to evaluate the impact of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) services on road safety are usually based on expert assessments or statistical studies. However, commonly used methods are challenging to apply in the planning process of ITS s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,623 Views
19 Pages

Masterplanning at the Port of Dover: The Use of Discrete-Event Simulation in Managing Road Traffic

  • Geoffrey C. Preston,
  • Phillip Horne,
  • Maria Paola Scaparra and
  • Jesse R. O’Hanley

3 February 2020

The Port of Dover is Europe’s busiest ferry port, handling £119 billion or 17% of the UK’s annual trade in goods. The Port is constrained geographically to a small area and faces multiple challenges, both short- and long-term, with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
243 Views
54 Pages

17 February 2026

Unmanned aircraft systems for regional operations are assumed to frequently operate at non-towered airports, where routine integration remains challenging due to limited separation principles and partially observable manned traffic intent. This resea...

  • Article
  • Open Access

With the increasing proportion of intelligent assisted vehicles in traffic flow, the existing primary highway traffic management measures exhibit insufficient adaptability to mixed traffic flows with high penetration of such vehicles. This study prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,208 Views
30 Pages

2 September 2025

Urban growth and rising vehicle usage have intensified congestion, accidents, and environmental impact, exposing the limitations of traditional traffic management systems. This study introduces a dual-incident simulation framework to investigate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,192 Views
13 Pages

16 June 2025

The assessment of energy impacts associated with autonomous vehicles must extend beyond individual vehicle analysis to encompass mixed fleets with varying degrees of automation. This study presents an integrated simulation framework designed to evalu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,053 Views
23 Pages

Predictive Model for EV Charging Load Incorporating Multimodal Travel Behavior and Microscopic Traffic Simulation

  • Haihong Bian,
  • Quance Ren,
  • Zhengyang Guo,
  • Chengang Zhou,
  • Zhiyuan Zhang and
  • Ximeng Wang

28 May 2024

A predictive model for the spatiotemporal distribution of electric vehicle (EV) charging load is proposed in this paper, considering multimodal travel behavior and microscopic traffic simulation. Firstly, the characteristic variables of travel time a...

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