Current Trends in Road Traffic Network Division for Distributed or Parallel Road Traffic Simulation

Abstract

Road traffic simulation is one of the useful tools, which can help to cope with steadily increasing intensity of road traffic. A distributed or parallel computing environment can significantly speedup the simulation execution, but the road traffic network division is usually required. There are many existing methods for road traffic network division based on various approaches. However, there is a lack of surveys mapping these methods. For this reason, this paper is a survey of existing methods for road traffic network division published in last two decades. It is not a systematic review, as it does not try to answer specific scientific questions. Its purpose is to map and categorize the existing methods for road traffic network division and to summarize their common features. Such a survey can be useful as a good starting point for the related work exploration for any teams or individuals dealing with road traffic network division and distributed or parallel road traffic simulation.