A large-scale agent-based traffic microsimulation based on queue model

We use the so-called queue model introducted by Gawron as the base of the traffic dynamics in our micro-simulation. The queue model describes the links with a flow capacity that limits the number of agents that can leave the link and a space constraint which defines the limit of the number of agents that can be on a link at the same time. Free flow speed is the third key component of traffic dynamics in the model. Flow capacity and space constraint together model physical queues, which can spill back beyond the end of the link. A consequence of this is that fairness between the incoming traffic streams becomes an issue, since in a spill-back situation they cannot be served at their full rate. We implement and verify a simple solution to this; the solution is much simpler than the one chosen in many other models. The traffic micro-simulation is “large-scale ” which means the simulation is capable of modeling the behavior of millions of agents simultaneously. We utilize a parallel implementation to speed up the computation. In this implementation, the data is distributed onto a number of computing node, each of which runs a smaller portion of the data. Data distribution and communicatio