Real time traffic simulator for self-adaptive navigation system validation

Abstract

We have developed an enhanced real time traffic simulator running on High Performance Computing infrastructure for testing an efficiency and usability of a self-adaptive navigation system which implements a
traffic flow optimization service coordinated with external client-side navigation applications and heterogeneous traffic data sources collected and fused in an intelligent way. Building blocks of the simulator include a server-side navigation system, Virtual Smart City World, benchmark settings, and a test bed containing industrial Sygic client-side navigation and a simplified simulation of vehicles. The important feature of the simulator is the ability to evaluate the traffic flow control strategy in the Smart City world, both with and without enabled Global View calculation of a traffic network for a given percentage of vehicles connected to the server-side service. The integration of the Sygic navigation to the large-scale traffic simulator allows performing compliance test of real navigation applications to the developed central navigation system.

Traffic Simulator | Dynamic Routing | HPC | Smart City | Navigation Optimization

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