Evaluating traffic effects of a route guidance system by dynamic simulation

Abstract

This paper will present how to evaluate the global traffic effect of a telematic route guidance system by using a developed simulation tool, DYNEMO. A mesoscopic model, that gathers the merits of both macroscopic and microscopic traffic models, has been applied in this tool for dynamic traffic simulation. The communication between vehicles and the telematic infrastructure inside a road network is simulated by decision points that able to give last traffic messages, as vehicles pass by them. The evaluation will be made from the traffic aspect, safety aspect and consumption as well as emission. We will illustrate the approach by using the city road network of Braunschweig in Germany as an example of implementing a kind of route guidance system like EURO-SCOUT.