Development and Evaluation of an Urban-Scale Traffic Simulation for Reducing the Number of Traffic Accidents

Abstract

Realizing urban-scale traffic simulations and utilizing the results of traffic analysis provide valuable insights for society. This study focused on cities in Aichi Prefecture, which has relatively high rates of traffic accident fatalities compared to other prefectures in Japan and aimed to achieve an urban-scale vehicle traffic simulation for traffic analysis. We used Simulation of Urban MObility (SUMO) as the simulator and got appropriate results for the entire area of Aichi Prefecture. This paper also details the simulation results and discusses how these results can be applied to analyze and reduce the number of traffic accidents.