Traffic Modeling with SUMO: a Tutorial

TL;DR

This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide to creating and simulating traffic scenarios with SUMO, including data integration and analysis, for researchers and practitioners in traffic modeling.

Contribution

It offers a detailed, step-by-step methodology for generating accurate traffic models and utilizing SUMO outputs for data analysis, enhancing simulation practices.

Findings

Effective pipeline for synthetic traffic model generation

Methods for importing real traffic data into SUMO

Techniques for analyzing simulation output

Abstract

This paper presents a step-by-step guide to generating and simulating a traffic scenario using the open-source simulation tool SUMO. It introduces the common pipeline used to generate a synthetic traffic model for SUMO, how to import existing traffic data into a model to achieve accuracy in traffic simulation (that is, producing a traffic model which dynamics is similar to the real one). It also describes how SUMO outputs information from simulation that can be used for data analysis purposes.