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Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1 (AAMAS'04)
Towards Truly Agent-Based Traffic and Mobility Simulations
New York City, New York, USA
July 19-July 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2092-8
Michael Balmer, ETH Zurich
Nurhan Cetin, ETH Zurich
Kai Nagel, Technical University Berlin
Bryan Raney, ETH Zurich
Traveling is necessary and desirable; yet, it imposes external costs on other people. Quantitative methods help finding a balance. Multi-agent simulations seem an obvious possibility here. A real world traffic simulation consists of many modules, all requiring different expertise. The paper discusses how such modules can be coupled to a complete simulation system, how such a system can be made fast enough to deal with real-world sizes (several millions of travelers), and how agent memory can be introduced. A real-world case study is presented, which says that multi-agent methods for traffic are mature enough to be used alongside existing methods. Finally, some outlook into the near future is given.
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Michael Balmer, Nurhan Cetin, Kai Nagel, Bryan Raney, "Towards Truly Agent-Based Traffic and Mobility Simulations," aamas, vol. 1, pp.60-67, Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1 (AAMAS'04), 2004
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