Highway Modeling in Anylogic for Multi-Agent Approach to Smart City Management

Abstract

Highway management implemented to a city ring road should be indisputably integrated into Smart City strategies. It is believed that the multi-agent approach should facilitate such an integration since it is able to cover heterogeneous entities. For this reason, an agent based environment for the simulation of different control strategies to highway management was required. The software tool Anylogic was selected for this issue, since it contains built-in traffic library and allows agent based modeling. In the previous work, the architecture and the framework model for the simulation environment were defined. This paper is focused on the highway model itself. It deals with the problems which had to be overcome when modeling a highway segment in Anylogic. It includes the infrastructure with ramps and exits, loop detectors for traffic flow mapping and gantries for transmission of control actions to the drivers. The generation and the setting of traffic flow, together with its mapping and the drivers' reaction on the control measures, are also covered. The highway model was validated with real data from Prague Ring Road and, within the mentioned framework model, it is now prepared for the simulation of different scenarios.