Simulating Personal Rapid Transit in SUMO
summary
Simulation uses SUMO to build a city‑wide PRT for Bad Hersfeld with DLR, Dromos and 7p Solutions, optimizing a fully connected guideway graph to minimize travel time and construction cost under lane capacity constraints via a multi-commodity flow formulation. Stations map to bus stops and parking berths, merges use a zipper, and vehicle control disables car‑following to enforce 0.5 seconds headway. Results show tradeoffs in fleet occupancy vs waiting time and the scenario code is on DLR’s GitHub.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:38How can we solve our mobility challenges?
- 3:49Study Scope and Literature Review
- 5:54Agent Based Traffic Simulation Pipeline
- 6:47Minimizing Travel Time & Construction Cost for a PRT Network
- 9:41Vehicles & Station Design based on SUMO functionalities
- 10:41Merging at intersections is mandatory for high capacity PRT
- 12:12DRT operating strategies vary greatly in complexity
- 13:12Development of the Network Topology
- 14:14Evaluation of PRT system configurations
- 15:09What's the best PRT configuration?