Sumo in scientific literature, 2002-2012

Abstract

SUMO is an open source microscopic road traffic simulation developed at the German Aerospace Center since the year 2000. The major audience is the traffic research community. This article tries to answer whether SUMO got accepted, who uses it, and for which purposes. The investigation is performed based on a collection of scientific publications that name SUMO. The documents contained in this collection were bibliographically annotated and classified using three different classification schemes. The investigation reveals an increasing usage of SUMO by a growing, international community. It shows that SUMO is mainly used in the scope of research on vehicular communications.