Towards a Microscopic Traffic Simulation of All of Switzerland

Multi-agent transportation simulations are rule-based. The fact that such simulations do not vectorize means that the recent move to distributed computing architectures results in an explosion of computing capabilities of multiagent simulations. This paper describes the general modules which are necessary for transportation planning simulations, reports the status of an implementation of such a simulation for all of Switzerland, and gives computational performance numbers.

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