Abstract
Traffic constitutes a key factor in a city. Thus, city layout, quality of services, pollution, products delivery, people transportation, and many other activities depend closely on traffic. The decision makers of a smart city should conceive ways for limiting pollution, fuel consumption, and transportation times, as well as accidents and disturbances to dwellers, to give a few examples. In order to achieve these objectives, decisions should be made on the appropriate configuration of the reachable degrees of freedom of the traffic system. However, the complexity of traffic systems, and the conflicting goals of the decision makers in a smart city, makes decision support systems a tool to be considered. In this paper one of such systems is described. It is based on the use of a simulation model for supporting the decision making by what-if experiments or by optimization. This model is developed using the paradigm of the Petri nets and is applicable for simulation and for structural analysis. The model is simple and can be easily adapted to different cities or road networks by adding to the model the layout of the city streets and roads, as well as some additional information such as traffic lights or number and type of vehicles.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Latorre-Biel, J.I., Jimenez-Macias, E.: Simulation-based optimization of discrete event systems with alternative structural configurations using distributed computation and the Petri net paradigm. Simul. Trans. Soci. Model. Simul. Int. 89(11), 1310–1334 (2013). doi:10.1177/0037549713505761
Latorre-Biel, J.I., Jiménez-Macías, E., Pérez-de-la-Parte, M.: Simulation-based optimization for the design of discrete event systems modeled by parametric Petri nets. In: Proceedings of the 2011 Fifth UKSim European Symposium on Computer Modeling and Simulation (EMS), pp. 150–155 (2011). doi:10.1109/EMS.2011.63
Juan, A.A., Faulin, J., Pérez-Bernabeu, E., Domínguez, O.: Simulation-optimization methods in vehicle routing problems: a literature review and an example. In: Fernández-Izquierdo, M.Á., Muñoz-Torres, M.J., León, R. (eds.) MS 2013. LNBIP, vol. 145, pp. 115–124. Springer, Heidelberg (2013). doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38279-6_13
Barceló, J. (ed.): Fundamentals of Traffic Simulation. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol. 145. Springer, Heidelberg (2010). doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-6142-6
Latorre-Biel, J.I., Jiménez-Macías, E., Pérez, M.: Sequence of decisions on discrete event systems modeled by Petri nets with structural alternative configurations. J. Comput. Sci. 5(3), 387–394 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.jocs.2013.09.001
Latorre-Biel, J.I., Jiménez-Macías, E., Pérez-de-la-Parte, M., Sáenz-Díez, J.C., Martínez-Cámara, E., Blanco-Fernández, J.: Compound Petri nets and alternatives aggregation Petri nets: two formalisms for decision-making support. Adv. Mech. Eng. 8(11) (2016). doi:10.1177/1687814016680516
Latorre-Biel, J.I., Jiménez-Macías, E., Blanco-Fernández, J., Martínez-Cámara, E., Sáenz-Díez, J.C., Pérez-Parte, M.: Decision support system, based on the paradigm of the petri nets, for the design and operation of a dairy plant. Int. J. Food Eng. 11(6), 767–776 (2015). doi:10.1515/ijfe-2015-0063
Juan, A., Faulin, J., Grasman, S., Rabe, M., Figueira, G.: A review of simheuristics: extending metaheuristics to deal with stochastic optimization problems. Oper. Res. Perspect. 2, 62–72 (2015). doi:10.1016/j.orp.2015.03.001
Latorre, I., Faulin, J., Juan, A.: Enriching simheuristics with Petri net models: potential applications to logistics and supply chain management. In: Proceedings of the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 2475–2486, Washington D.C., USA, 11-14 December (2015). doi:10.1109/WSC.2016.7822286
Vazquez, C.R., Sutarto, H.Y., Boel, R., Silva, M.: Hybrid Petri net model of a traffic intersection in an urban network. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA 2010), pp. 658–664, Yokohama, Japan, September 2010. doi:10.1109/CCA.2010.5611322
Soares, M.S., Vrancken, J.: Responsive traffic signals designed with petri nets. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2008) (2008). doi:10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811574
Fanti, M.P., Iacobellis, G., Mangini, A.M., Ukovich, W.: Freeway traffic modeling and control in a first-order hybrid petri net framework. IEEE Trans. Autom. Sci. Eng. 11(1) (2014). doi:10.1109/TASE.2013.2253606
Yaqub, O., Li, L.: Modeling and analysis of connected traffic intersections based on modified binary petri nets. Int. J. Veh. Technol. (2013). doi:10.1155/2013/192516
Qi, L., Zhou, M.C., Luan, W.: A two-level traffic light control strategy for preventing incident-based urban traffic congestion. IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst. (2016). doi:10.1109/TITS.2016.2625324
Tolba, C., Lefebvre, D., Thomas, P., El Moudni, A.: Continuous and timed Petri nets for the macroscopic and microscopic traffic flow modelling. Simul. Model. Pract. Theory 13(5), 407–436 (2005). doi:10.1016/j.simpat.2005.01.001
Jensen, K., Kristensen, L.M.: Coloured Petri Nets: Modelling and Validation of Concurrent Systems. Springer, Heidelberg (2009). doi:10.1007/b95112
Latorre-Biel, J.C., Jiménez-Macías, E., Pérez de la Parte, M., Blanco-Fernández, J., Martínez-Cámara, E.: Control of discrete event systems by means of discrete optimization and disjunctive colored PNS: application to manufacturing facilities. Abstr. Appl. Anal. 2014(3), 1–16 (2014). doi:10.1155/2014/821707
Acknowledgements
This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (TRA2013-48180-C3-P and TRA2015-71883-REDT), FEDER, and the Ibero-American Program for Science and Technology for Development (CYTED2014-515RT0489).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Latorre-Biel, JI., Faulin, J., Jiménez, E., Juan, A.A. (2017). Simulation Model of Traffic in Smart Cities for Decision-Making Support: Case Study in Tudela (Navarre, Spain). In: Alba, E., Chicano, F., Luque, G. (eds) Smart Cities. Smart-CT 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59513-9_15
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59513-9_15
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-59512-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-59513-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)