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An efficient simulation execution engine is crucial for agent-based traffic simulation. Depending on the size of the simulation scenario the execution engine would have to update several thousand agents during a single time step. This update may also include route calculations which are computationally expensive. The ability to dynamically re-calculate the route of agents is a feature often not required in classical microscopic traffic simulations. However, for the agent-based traffic simulation which is part of the Scalable Electro-Mobility Simulation (SEMSim) platform, the routing ability of agents is an important feature. In this paper, we describe a multi-threaded simulation engine that explicitly supports routing capabilities for every agent. In addition, we analyse the efficiency and performance of our execution model in the context of a Singapore-based simulation scenario.
This work was financially supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation under its Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme.
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Aydt, H., Xu, Y., Lees, M., Knoll, A. (2013). A Multi-threaded Execution Model for the Agent-Based SEMSim Traffic Simulation. In: Tan, G., Yeo, G.K., Turner, S.J., Teo, Y.M. (eds) AsiaSim 2013. AsiaSim 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45037-2_1
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