Achieving Realistic Cyclist Behavior in SUMO using the SimRa Dataset

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Main Authors: Karakaya, Ahmet-Serdar, Stef, Ioan-Alexandru, Köhler, Konstantin, Heinovski, Julian, Dressler, Falko, Bermbach, David
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author Karakaya, Ahmet-Serdar
Stef, Ioan-Alexandru
Köhler, Konstantin
Heinovski, Julian
Dressler, Falko
Bermbach, David
author_facet Karakaya, Ahmet-Serdar
Stef, Ioan-Alexandru
Köhler, Konstantin
Heinovski, Julian
Dressler, Falko
Bermbach, David
contents Increasing the modal share of bicycle traffic to reduce carbon emissions, reduce urban car traffic, and to improve the health of citizens, requires a shift away from car-centric city planning. For this, traffic planners often rely on simulation tools such as SUMO which allow them to study the effects of construction changes before implementing them. Similarly, studies of vulnerable road users, here cyclists, also use such models to assess the performance of communication-based road traffic safety systems. The cyclist model in SUMO, however, is very imprecise as SUMO cyclists behave either like slow cars or fast pedestrians, thus, casting doubt on simulation results for bicycle traffic. In this paper, we analyze acceleration, deceleration, velocity, and intersection left-turn behavior of cyclists in a large dataset of real world cycle tracks. We use the results to improve the existing cyclist model in SUMO and add three more detailed cyclist models and implement them in SUMO.
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spellingShingle Achieving Realistic Cyclist Behavior in SUMO using the SimRa Dataset
Karakaya, Ahmet-Serdar
Stef, Ioan-Alexandru
Köhler, Konstantin
Heinovski, Julian
Dressler, Falko
Bermbach, David
Multiagent Systems
Systems and Control
Increasing the modal share of bicycle traffic to reduce carbon emissions, reduce urban car traffic, and to improve the health of citizens, requires a shift away from car-centric city planning. For this, traffic planners often rely on simulation tools such as SUMO which allow them to study the effects of construction changes before implementing them. Similarly, studies of vulnerable road users, here cyclists, also use such models to assess the performance of communication-based road traffic safety systems. The cyclist model in SUMO, however, is very imprecise as SUMO cyclists behave either like slow cars or fast pedestrians, thus, casting doubt on simulation results for bicycle traffic. In this paper, we analyze acceleration, deceleration, velocity, and intersection left-turn behavior of cyclists in a large dataset of real world cycle tracks. We use the results to improve the existing cyclist model in SUMO and add three more detailed cyclist models and implement them in SUMO.
title Achieving Realistic Cyclist Behavior in SUMO using the SimRa Dataset
topic Multiagent Systems
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01763