Framework of Short term - smart-fm/simmobility-prod GitHub Wiki

SimMobility ST is an agent-based, multimodal microscopic simulator where agents' movements are captured at a very fine resolution (up to 100 milliseconds). SimMobility ST comprises three main components. Microscopic Traffic Simulator module is responsible for advancing drivers, pedestrians and goods on the transportation network according to their respective behavioral and decision models. Control and Operation Systems module simulates the control centers, such as traffic and parking control, bus control, rail control, autonomous fleet control, logistic control, etc. The outcomes of these control actions will influence an agent's movement decisions, path choices and other related decisions in the movement simulator. Within Control and Operation Systems module, different control centers may be considered and replicated. At the current state of the simulator, the bus controller, traffic light controller and autonomous fleet controller are operational. The third component is the Communication Network Simulator, which simulates agent-to-agent communications. The information can be passed from one agent to another via the mobile communication or via vehicle-to-vehicle communication or maybe via vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. Communication Network Simulator is responsible for simulating the physical communication network (for example, a wireless network), and agents simulated within microscopic traffic network will use this simulated network to pass information between them. This will help the agents to get the realistic communication network, which will handle the message delivery delay or coverage.