DhakaSim: A Tool for Simulating Traffic Mobility in Dhaka City
Published in Proceedings of Workshop on Mobile Computing and Human Computer Interaction (MoHCI), 2014
We demonstrate a microscopic traffic simulator with mixed simulation capability that mimics real traffic scenarios in a virtual environment using real road network topology and real traffic data. The purpose of our project is to evaluate alternative transport options in Dhaka city. We have constructed two different versions of the proposed traffic simulator: the first one is a standalone application based on java and the other one is a parallel version based on C++. The constructed simulator receives network topology, driver behavior, and origin-destination flow as input. The simulator generates vehicles for each origin- destination pair based on the provided parameters, visualizes the flow of vehicles, and provides statistics. The visualization allows decision makers to identify different traffic events visually and the statistics allows them to analyze the events.