SUMO2014 - Modeling Mobility with Open Data

Abstract

Dear reader, You are holding in your hands a volume of the series „Reports of the DLR-Institute of Transportation Systems“. We are publishing in this series fascinating, scientific topics from the Institute of Transportation Systems of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. - DLR) and from his environment. We are providing libraries with a part of the circulation. Outstanding scientific contributions and dissertations are here published as well as projects reports and proceedings of conferences in our house with different contributors from science, economy and politics. With this series we are pursuing the objective to enable a broad access to scientific works and results. We are using the series as well as to promote practically young researchers by the publication of the dissertation of our staff and external doctoral candidates, too. Publications are important milestones on the academic career path. With the series „Reports of the DLR-Institute of Transportation Systems / Berichte aus dem DLR-Institut für Verkehrssystem¬technik“ we are widening the spectrum of possible publications with a bulding block. Beyond that we understand the communication of our scientific fields of research as a contribution to the national and international research landscape in the fiels of automotive, railway systems and traffic management. This volume contains the proceedings of the SUMO2014 – Modeling Mobility with Open Data, which was held from 15th to 16th May 2014 in Berlin-Adlershof, Germany. SUMO is a well established microscopic traffic simulation suite which has been available since 2002 and provides a wide range of traffic planning and simulation tools. The conference proceedings give a good overview of the applicability and usefulness of simulation tools like SUMO ranging from new methods in traffic control and vehicular communication to the simulation of complete cities. Another aspect of the tool suite, its universal extensibility due to the availability of the source code, is reflected in contributions covering parallelization and interfacing improvements to govern microscopic traffic simulation results. The major topic of this second edition of the SUMO conference is open data. Several articles cover the acquisition and refinement of traffic networks as one of the fundamental data sources. Subsequent specialized issues such as data models for emissions and Bluetooth simulation are targeted as well. The conference’s aim was bringing together the large international user community and exchanging experience in using SUMO, while presenting results or solutions obtained using the software or modeling mobility with open data. Let you inspire to try your next project with the SUMO suite. There are many new applications in your environment. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karsten Lemmer