A comparison of SUMO's count based and countless demand generation tools

Abstract

There are already several tools available to generate traffic demand for the microscopic simulation suite SUMO. This paper focuses on setting up a simulation scenario for the peak hour in a small conurbation when there are vehicle counts available for the major streets. We describe tools which are part of SUMO or available as open source and compare their results with the real traffic counts as well as with the outcome of countless demand generation.

Keywords

• traffic simulation
• demand
• traffic counts