Traffic simulation system and traffic simulation program

• US 9,524,640 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2011
• Issued: 12/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Tsuburaya, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chad, Aniss
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rogers, David M
• Application Number:
  US13/643,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20130041642A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,063 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0104 Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/026 Route selection considering the moving speed of individual devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/20 based on geographic position or location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/28 for reactive routing

Abstract

In a traffic simulation in which vehicle models, which simulate vehicles, are moved in a road system model including links, which simulate the smallest segment of roads divided by intersections, etc., and nodes, which simulate the intersections, turning points of the roads, etc., the presence/absence of an entering vehicle model that enters a different link from a link in the road system model via the node is judged; the velocity of the entering vehicle model after entering the different link is calculated on the basis of the density of the vehicle models in the different link after the entering vehicle model has entered the different link; and the calculated velocity is set only for the entering vehicle model that has entered the different link.

Claims

1. A traffic simulation system in which vehicle models, which simulate vehicles, are moved in a road system model that simulates a road system including a plurality of roads and intersections that connect the roads, the traffic simulation system comprising:

a memory; and

a processor configured to function as

an entering vehicle model presence judging unit for judging a presence or an absence of an entering vehicle model, which is a vehicle model that enters from a road in the road system model to a different road thereof via an intersection;

a calculating unit for calculating a velocity after entering the different road for the entering vehicle model that has been judged by the entering vehicle model presence judging unit to be entering the different road on a basis of a density of the vehicle models in the different road after the entering vehicle model has entered the different road; and

a setting unit that only sets the velocity calculated by the calculating unit for the entering vehicle model that has entered the different road, the setting unit does not change the velocity of other vehicle models travelling the different road ahead of the entering vehicle model in the travelling direction of the different road,

an entry-origin-velocity calculating unit for calculating velocities of the vehicle models in an entry-origin road for the entering vehicle model after the entering vehicle model has entered the different road, on a basis of density of the vehicle models in the entry-origin road; and

an entry-origin-velocity setting unit for comparing the entry-origin-velocity calculated by the entry-origin-velocity calculating unit with the velocity of each of the vehicle models in the entry-origin road before the entering vehicle model has entered the different road, and for setting the velocity of each of the vehicle models in the entry-origin road after the entering vehicle model has entered the different road on the basis of a result of the comparisons.

2. The traffic simulation system according to claim 1, the processor further configured to function as:

a cross-lane-turn judging unit for judging, when the entering vehicle model presence judging unit judges that there is an entering vehicle model, whether or not the entering vehicle model is a cross-lane-turning vehicle which makes a cross-lane-turn in order to enter the different road; and

a determining unit for determining, when the cross-lane-turn judging unit judges that the entering vehicle model is a cross-lane-turning vehicle, a possibility for the entering vehicle model to make the cross-lane-turn on the basis of density and velocity of the vehicle models that act as oncoming vehicle models in the road where the entering vehicle model is positioned.

3. The traffic simulation system according to claim 2, the processor further configured to function as a random-number generating unit for generating a random number,

wherein the determining unit permits the entering vehicle model to make a cross-lane-turn on the basis of a result of comparisons between a value of the random number generated by the random-number generating unit and a value based on the density and the velocity of the vehicle models that act as the oncoming vehicles.

4. A non-transitory storage medium readable by a computer and storing a traffic simulation program employed in a traffic simulation system in which vehicle models, which simulate vehicles, are moved in a road system model that simulates a road system including a plurality of roads and intersections that connect the roads, the program when executed causes the computer to function as

an entering vehicle model presence judging unit for judging a presence or an absence of an entering vehicle model, which is a vehicle model that enters from a road in the road system model to a different road thereof via an intersection;

a calculating unit for calculating a velocity after entering the different road for the entering vehicle model that has been judged by the entering vehicle model presence judging unit to be entering the different road on the basis of a density of the vehicle models in the different road after the entering vehicle model has entered the different road; and

a setting unit for setting the velocity calculated by the calculating unit only for the entering vehicle model that has entered the different road, and for leaving the velocity of other vehicle model ahead of the entering vehicle model in the traveling direction in the different road unchanged, further comprising;

an entry-origin-velocity calculating unit for calculating velocities of the vehicle models in an entry-origin road for the entering vehicle model after the entering vehicle model has entered the different road, on a basis of density of the vehicle models in the entry-origin road; and

an entry-origin-velocity setting unit for comparing the entry-origin-velocity calculated by the entry-origin-velocity calculating unit with the velocity of each of the vehicle models in the entry-origin road before the entering vehicle model has entered the different road, and for setting the velocity of each of the vehicle models in the entry-origin road after the entering vehicle model has entered the different road on a basis of the result of the comparisons.