Simulação de eventos de tráfego numa rota em área urbana.

Abstract

This work describes, through a simulation model, a standard route for a vehicle that competes with the remaining traffic in an urban area, encompassing several traffic events. The representation of the various traffic events used in the definition of the route and implemented using the computational language GPSS. The models referring to the events studied, involve the main problems of urban traffic that interfere in the vehicle's route, increasing its travel time. The model developed in this work represents an urban network, where the standard route of a vehicle is located, and is built through the association of small models referring to the various traffic events considered compromising in the vehicle's travel duration. The default route defined in this model is made up of four segments. The first represents the stretch of street that connects the starting point of the route to the first intersection and is called the local street. The subsequent two segments represent the sections of streets that connect the first intersection to the second and are called the original route and the alternative route, respectively. The last segment represents the stretch of street that connects the second intersection to the end point of the route and is called the end segment. The built model is used to simulate a daily trip during the period of one hundred days and analyzes, using average values ​​of travel time produced by the model itself, the travel alternatives through the original and alternative routes.