AN AUTONOMOUS TRAFFIC FLOW SIMULATOR INCLUDING INTER-VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS

How to evaluate the effectiveness of communication systems in ITS is very important. In this paper, an autonomous traffic flow simulator is constructed, including inter-vehicle communication systems that can evaluate the effectiveness of inter-vehicle communication systems in the ITS using an object-oriented method. In this simulator, the inter-vehicle communication systems perform as a vehicular driving assistant system. Simulation results show that the inter-vehicle communication system is effective for improving the traffic safety. In addition, this simulator can evaluate the traffic safety depending on the mounting ratio of communication equipment. For the covering abstract see IRRD E102946.