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A Review of Gaming Simulation in Transportation

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Frontiers in Gaming Simulation (ISAGA 2013)

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Gaming simulation has proven to be an invaluable method for experimentation and learning and exploring scenarios in various fields of policy making. In this paper, we present a case for the use of gaming simulation in transportation analysis. We also present a review of games and gaming simulation in transportation analysis. We observe that gaming simulation is not widely used in transportation, despite its wide use in associated fields.

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  1. Division of Traffic and Logistics, KTH, Sweden

    Jayanth Raghothama & Sebastiaan A. Meijer

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  1. School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Division for Traffic and Logistics, Gaming and Participatory Simulation Labs, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sebastiaan A. Meijer

  2. School of Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Enterprise Simulation Laboratory SimLab., Aalto University, P.O. Box 15500, 00076, Aalto, Finland

    Riitta Smeds

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Raghothama, J., Meijer, S.A. (2014). A Review of Gaming Simulation in Transportation. In: Meijer, S.A., Smeds, R. (eds) Frontiers in Gaming Simulation. ISAGA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04954-0_28

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