COLOMBO Deliverable 6.4: Educational Kit

The aim of this document is to provide instruction to those interested in the publicly available software components of COLOMBO. The document is written in the first place for the academic community, basic knowledge of linux, windows and XML file editing is therefore assumed. Road authorities, consultants, traffic planners and managers, and OEMs of relevant ITS products are also welcome to use this public deliverable to access the COLOMBO results. The document tries to explain the purpose of the components and give a manual-style overview on the usage. The document will first discuss the COLOMBO Overall Simulation System (COSS) in Chapter 2, which should enable the user to setup the online simulations. Chapter 3 will treat the Swarm traffic control algorithm in more detail. This control algorithm is compiled together with the SUMO simulator and therefore does not appear as a separate component in the overall architecture. The next component is the evaluation toolkit discussed in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 deals with the specifics for COLOMBO of the iRace software. Lastly, Appendix A explains the iTetris software in more detail, which is responsible for the iCS middleware.