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Cons | Cons | ||
* Not much science behind this | * Not much science behind this | ||
| + | * We can't change the model and see how it affects real life | ||
Comments | Comments | ||
* Could be a good one to teach the verification and validation process | * Could be a good one to teach the verification and validation process | ||
| + | * Charlie did a class like this years ago where they did stand there and count cars and then wrote a simulation | ||
| + | * Make people walk through different halls: have one hallway up and one down, versus both both directions | ||
| + | ** Should take less time even if it does walk longer | ||
| + | * Maybe we don't need to do a lot of physical stuff with this one since people are already familiar with traffic | ||
| + | * Idea: bunch of cars that have to get somewhere, and you have a limited amount of concrete and traffic control and you have to get cars from point a to point b, and you can control how long and control the lights | ||
== To Do == | == To Do == | ||
| + | * Probably going outside is not practical, but we could look at the speed of cars on the webcam, and we know the % of cars that stop at the pedestrian walk, we could play with this | ||
| + | * See if there's some sort of existing traffic-organizing model | ||
| + | * Tie in to Monte Carlo simulations? | ||
Latest revision as of 10:20, 9 February 2009
Traffic flow modeling - This could be systems dynamics or agent-based (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_flow) and part of the Measuring the World unit. The simulation would involve modeling a section of traffic to see results of uses of traffic control devices. The validation/verification part of this could be to observe an actual section of traffic here in Richmond.
- http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/janfeb99/traffic.htm
- http://www.saturnsoftware.co.uk/
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=963600.963674&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=20327714&CFTOKEN=91787820
- http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18774/?a=f
Comments
Pros
- A lot of people have already researched this, and it's easy to validate by standing out and watching traffic in an intersection
- Some statistics and probability
Cons
- Not much science behind this
- We can't change the model and see how it affects real life
Comments
- Could be a good one to teach the verification and validation process
- Charlie did a class like this years ago where they did stand there and count cars and then wrote a simulation
- Make people walk through different halls: have one hallway up and one down, versus both both directions
- Should take less time even if it does walk longer
- Maybe we don't need to do a lot of physical stuff with this one since people are already familiar with traffic
- Idea: bunch of cars that have to get somewhere, and you have a limited amount of concrete and traffic control and you have to get cars from point a to point b, and you can control how long and control the lights
To Do
- Probably going outside is not practical, but we could look at the speed of cars on the webcam, and we know the % of cars that stop at the pedestrian walk, we could play with this
- See if there's some sort of existing traffic-organizing model
- Tie in to Monte Carlo simulations?
