A multiagent urban traffic simulation Part I: dealing with the ordinary

Pierrick Tranouez (1) , Patrice Langlois (2) , Eric Daudé (2)

1 LITIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes
2 IDEES - Identité et Différenciation de l’Espace, de l’Environnement et des Sociétés

We describe in this article a multiagent urban traffic simulation, as we believe individual-based modeling is necessary to encompass the complex influence the actions of an individual vehicle can have on the overall flow of vehicles. We first describe how we build a graph description of the network from purely geometric data, ESRI shapefiles. We then explain how we include traffic related data to this graph. We go on after that with the model of the vehicle agents: origin and destination, driving behavior, multiple lanes, crossroads, and interactions with the other vehicles in day-to-day, “ordinary” traffic. We conclude with the presentation of the resulting simulation of this model on the Rouen agglomeration.

Mots clés: multiagent systems; traffic simulation; geomatics; multiscale

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Géographie

Pierrick Tranouez, Patrice Langlois, Eric Daudé. A multiagent urban traffic simulation Part I: dealing with the ordinary. ICCSA 2009, Jun 2009, France. pp.NA. ⟨hal-00413713⟩