This thesis presents an urban traffic simulator in the form of a general purpose intersection simulation model. This general purpose model is designed to be used as a tool in the optimization of signal phasing schemes for single signalized intersections and networks thereof. Since the simulator is capable of handling both platoon and random arrival distributions, network optimization is possible on an intersection by intersection basis. Here platooned output from one intersection becomes platoon arrivals to the next and the bottlenecking influence of neighboring intersections is realistically accounted for in this way. Because the model is to be treated as a tool, it has been designed so that no previous computer or simulation experience is necessary for its effective use. The model is written in General Purpose Simulation System /360 and occupies 110K bytes of core. It is shown to be extremely flexible and its performance is rated as excellent in terms of realism and efficiency.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 21st Annual Simulation Technology and Training Conference, SimTecT 2016, and the 47th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2016, Held as Part of the First Australasian Simulation Congress, ASC 2016, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in September 2016. The 28 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Making the grade; Come to think of it; From here to fidelity; The name of the game; and Ahead of the game.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems, INTSYS 2107, which was held in Helsinki, Finland, in November 2017. The 30 revised full papers were selected from 47 submissions and are organized in 6 thematic sessions on planning and sustainable transport and smart cities, intelligent rail transport systems, transport modelling and simulation & big data application, ITS safety and security, cooperative ITS and autonomous driving, and intelligent traffic management.

These Proceedings provide valuable information on the exchange of ideas between scientists who apply nonlinear programming and optimization to real world control problems and those who develop new methods, algorithms and software. The papers deal with windshear problems, optimization of aircraft and spacecraft trajectories, optimal control for robots, the optimization of urban traffic control, general mechanical systems, multilevel inventory systems and robust control.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and instructive coverage of vehicular traffic flow dynamics and modeling. It makes this fascinating interdisciplinary topic, which to date was only documented in parts by specialized monographs, accessible to a broad readership. Numerous figures and problems with solutions help the reader to quickly understand and practice the presented concepts. This book is targeted at students of physics and traffic engineering and, more generally, also at students and professionals in computer science, mathematics, and interdisciplinary topics. It also offers material for project work in programming and simulation at college and university level. The main part, after presenting different categories of traffic data, is devoted to a mathematical description of the dynamics of traffic flow, covering macroscopic models which describe traffic in terms of density, as well as microscopic many-particle models in which each particle corresponds to a vehicle and its driver. Focus chapters on traffic instabilities and model calibration/validation present these topics in a novel and systematic way. Finally, the theoretical framework is shown at work in selected applications such as traffic-state and travel-time estimation, intelligent transportation systems, traffic operations management, and a detailed physics-based model for fuel consumption and emissions.