Citation: M. Calabrese, V. Di Lecce, M. Ottomanelli, D. Sassanelli, Modelling An Urban Traffic Network By A Consumer/Producer Architecture, Proceedings of 11th Meeting Of The Euro Working Group On Transportation Ewgt 06 - Bari – Italy, pp. 788-792, September 2006. (ISBN: 8-8901-7982-1)
Abstract: In this paper a proposal for modelling urban traffic network is presented. The proposed traffic model is specified by investigating the possible isomorphism between traffic system and operating system. In this short paper we show that such an analogy is consistent and it could be helpful when dealing with dynamic network loading. In fact, with respect to a given urban traffic network (region of interest), we assume each road (link) to act as resource consumer or as buffer. The relationships with the environment outside the region of interest is modelled by a set of external producers (centroids). The work is just at the beginning and the research on practical performances of such an approach are on going.
Keyword: urban traffic modelling