Traffic simulation Using agent based modelling

Abstract

This paper studies two different models of agent-based modelling in simulating an urbanized city transportation network under various conditions and situations. Urbanized city traffic requires consideration of wide mobility modes to better represents the impact of certain real-life situations. Agent-based modelling with powerful modelling and simulation platforms offers an amazing framework to fulfil the needs of modelers to study from nanoscopic to macroscopic phenomena. Over the years, many platforms have been developed to cope with the need of simulating more complicated agent-based model. With GAMA (GIS & Agent-based Modelling Architecture), an open-source (GPL) tool that allows modelling of the real-life situation with a simpler framework, simulating the urban traffic involving the area around Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).