Over the past few decades, the increasing number of vehicles and imperfect road traffic management have been sources of congestion in cities and reasons for deteriorating health of its inhabitants. With the help of computer simulations, transport engineers optimise and improve the capacity of city streets. However, with an enormous number of possible simulation types, it is difficult to grasp valuable, innovative solutions which are of the greatest value to city citizens. In this work, the authors expose various problems within this area having reviewed and analysed over 130 papers selected out of 1200 works in the field of urban simulations. The study describes the selection process of important papers and highlights characteristics of microsimulations, macrosimulations, computation optimisations and other approaches found in the literature which are especially useful and should be further built on in the future. They present and compare results provided in reviewed works in terms of throughput improvement, queue, waiting and travel time reduction, vehicle speed increase, speed‐ups as well as assumed simulation parameters. Finally, they focus on research gaps, such as a small number of works considering crisis simulations, few real‐world scale simulations as well as on software architectural changes and low‐level optimizations.
Recent advances in traffic optimisation: systematic literature review of modern models, methods and algorithms
IET Intelligent Transport Systems ; 14 , 13 ; 1740-1758
2020-12-01
19 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
urban simulations , transport engineers optimise , greatest value , systematic literature review , traffic simulations , inhabitants , valuable solutions , road traffic , selection process , speed‐ups , traffic engineering computing , reviewed works , optimisation , traffic optimisation , modern studies , transportation , important papers , assumed simulation parameters , throughput improvement , city streets , time reduction , real‐world scale simulations , innovative solutions , city citizens , reviews , critical analysis , imperfect road traffic management , computation optimisations , systematic analysis , crisis simulations , vehicle speed increase , computer simulations , enormous number , project management , deteriorating health , possible simulation types , using old technologies , reasons
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