Towards Large Scale Road Traffic Simulation Experiment

The Insigma project goals include traffic optimization and control. It is assumed that advanced functions including traffic monitoring and prediction, route planning, and, finally, traffic optimization and control, will be able to utilize the available road infrastructure in an optimal way in order to minimize traffic jams and related social and environmental losses. The efficiency of these mechanisms will be evaluated through large-scale simulation experiments. However, before such experiments become feasible, an appropriate simulation environment must be prepared. In the paper, we discuss the application of SUMO as a simulation environment and its integration with Insigma’s traffic control layer.