Contents
5. Conclusion
6. Project Timescale Plan
7. References

5. Conclusion

The results of the project should be:

• A fully independent application to quickly model simple urban road networks.
• A simulation to animate user-defined traffic data on a road network.
• A simulation able to collect results accurate enough to compare two different road networks for through-flow.
• Application documentation and project background information.
• A set of simple traffic models and algorithms to solve them (written is Java).

Although Intelligent Traffic Systems are state-of-the-art and undergoing much research, this project does not have the scope to break new ground in traffic modelling. This project can however show the public a simulator that is quick to learn, easy to understand and fun to use.

As the simulations code gets written and tested, the results obtained will help validate or invalidate the specification. It is to be expected that the specification may under or over specify some aspects of traffic modelling and may have to be adjusted. These adjustments will be recorded and discussed in later documentation. Simulations help to make and validate decisions. The spec is an initial decision that I've taken and the application will test whether it is good initial decision or not.

Project Extensions Ideas:
Implementing the features listed in the "project limits" section could extend the projects realism and accuracy.
Other ideas include:

• Implementing emergency vehicle tracking. This would track police cars and ambulances and could adjust traffic signals at junctions to speed up their journey times and divert traffic away from incidents.
• Colour-coding vehicles. A vehicles colour in the simulation could help indicate information to the user such as acceleration, speed, destination, etc.
• Map reading and junction recognition. A program could try image recognition techniques of maps or aerial photographs to produce models of real road networks.
• A web interface to the application. It should be possible to publish estimated journey times to a web interface to allow commuters to view traffic situations or to generate automatic planned best journey routes.

6. Summarised Project Timescale Plan

7. References

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[3] Kent County Council. Intelligent Transport Systems (http://www.kent.gov.uk/sp/roads/inteltrans.html)

[4] SMARTEST Project. (Simulation Modelling Applied to Road Transport European Scheme Tests) Micro-simulation links. (http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/projects/smartest/links.html)

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[6] The Traffic Simulation Group at the ZPR (http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/GroupBachem/VERKEHR.PG/)

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