Towards understanding intercity traffic interdependencies

The focus of this work is distributed simulation and visualisation of large-scale road traffic networks. In particular, the effects and interdependencies of traffic between cities and motorways were studied. In this context, an investigating of how the road traffic of Swansea and Cardiff cities affect each other and the M4 motorway which connects the two cities was conducted. The aim is to find a globally optimum solutions for traffic management in this important South Wales region using the IBM Blue C supercomputer. For the covering abstract see ITRD E140665.