Microscopic Traffic Simulation Models and Software: An Open Source Approach

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Open source offers the transportation research community a window to examine those rules to avoid misuse of the software in their research projects. Most significantly, the transportation research community can share the software enhancements with other researchers, and commercial model developers can more readily adapt the algorithms. Researchers not only need to modify and add new rules to make the software work better but also to accommodate new technologies and new traffic operations, such as Global Positioning System (GPS)-based vehicles and high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes. Practicing traffic engineers will wish to avoid many of the new technologies that do not fit into their practice and thus are not the target audience for this research.