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MOBILITY SHOW 2006 - Session C
Simulation tools for testing of actions on transport network: The TRANSURBAN approach
P. Chiappini
CORE, Genova |
This presentation will address the role that simulation models and tools play in the planning, testing and assessment of the impact of actions on the mobility system and transport network. While assignment models have been widely used in the design and planning of transport and mobility systems, the same cannot be said of micro-simulation, despite the potentials, flexibility and large range of uses that these techniques can offer.
The first part of the presentation will review the scope of use of the assignment models and the dynamic simulation models (or micro-simulation) for each type of action (infrastructure and/or control) to be implemented and the time span of such models.
Attention will therefore be paid to the potentials of dynamic simulation (or micro-simulation) as an aid to short-term decisions which must be taken on a case-by-case basis to manage mobility and traffic in medium and large urban areas (addition of fast lanes, new lights control, redesign of traffic in urban areas, PUT, introduction of ITS systems, etc.).
A few words will be said on their possible uses in support of traffic control and supervision systems and ITS technology in general. In support of these considerations, the paper will present a real case in which simulation was used for testing the design and assessing a protected priority corridor (BRT-Bus Rapid Transit) in the city of Livorno, as part of the EU project INTERREG III C TRANSURBAN.
Finally, some technical and operating comments will be made on the operating implications of the management of very complex tools, such as the simulation tools, and the professional skills required to make the most of and add to the organisational facilities these software tools, that are widely available on the market and are improved all the time. |
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