Hallo Jakob,

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain these issues (all the more so 
during the weekend). You bring several creative solutions to generate 
congestion situations and I will take time to study them carefully.


You made me realize that indeed we cannot create jams artificially at the front 
of a stream if there are no more obstacles beyond. It makes sense and this is 
an excellent observation! I also like your suggestion to use random speed 
fluctuations to create unexpected jams because that's what happens sometimes in 
real life.


Can we create congestion artificially in SUMO by adding an edge at the end of 
the network with a speed lower than the maximum speed of the vehicles? So all 
vehicles would slow down entering the last edge and that could increase the 
density at the back of the stream and create jams?


Once again thank you for your availability and as I mentioned previously during 
the Berlin conference in 2015, no organization is comparable to the SUMO team 
in terms of support and help for users.


Vielen Dank

François

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Hello François,
There might still be some misunderstanding here so I'll try to clarify:

Speed is automatically reduced according to the current traffic density (this 
comes out of the vehicle interactions and is a core function of the simulation).

However, normal vehicle insertion will not reduce the speed of upstream 
vehicles in order to create gaps for new vehicle insertion.
Thus normal insertion cannot increase the density in a circle beyond the 
maximum free flow density.
And this might actually be a missing feature: 
https://github.com/eclipse/sumo/issues/9031.

If you have a straight section of highway, there are no upstream vehicles at 
the beginning of your network and you can insert vehicles with low speeds and 
high densities.
However, since jams dissolve from the front, any jam you create by insertion 
vehicles at the start of an edge will not grow downstream.  Instead you will 
just see the medium density outflow from a perpetual jam front.

The high densities that you seen in a jam can be achieved if you either:
- insert lots of slow vehicles at the same time all along one or more edges 
(rather unnatural but easily achievable with departPos="last" and 
departSpeed="x" for a low value of x).
- create a situation where a stream of fast vehicles approaches a section with 
slow vehicles and is thereby "compressed" to a high density (i.e. with an 
on-ramp or a bottleneck).

There is another way in which speed can suddenly drop at high densities and 
this is through spontaneous jam creation ("jam-out-of-nowhere").
Spontaneous jams happen if the model has random speed fluctuations and these 
random fluctuations can add up in a dense queue of vehicles.

Whether this can occur depends on the carFollowModel and it's parameters. The 
default 'Krauss' model only has spontaneous jams when increasing the 'sigma' 
parameter to 0.8 or higher (default is 0.5).
The IDM model has no random fluctuations and thus cannot model this at all. The 
new EIDM model added in 1.10 should be suitable for spontaneous jams but I 
haven't tried out the parameters. Maybe Dominik Salles can suggest some.

Another issue with the straight-highway fundamental diagram scenario, is that 
SUMO has no single input element that defines a rising level of traffic 
directly.
In a circle, the inserted traffic can remain and thus the density may rise 
steadily from a constant input of new vehicles.
In contrast, for a straight highway scenario you have to define a sequence of 
traffic inputs with rising levels of traffic.

regards,
Jakob


Am Fr., 27. Aug. 2021 um 15:28 Uhr schrieb François Vaudrin 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:

Danke Jakob,


I understand in the example of the circle that the speed must be reduced 
according to the density, but this is not done automatically by SUMO. And an 
intervention must be applied to reduce speed locally according to the measured 
density in real time by SUMO.


In other words, if I have a straight section of hihwayof several km long and I 
add vehicles until I reach the theoretical capacity of vehicles per lane 
(2000), the vehicles will not necessarily start to slow down as a function of 
the flow, as in the fundamental diagram.


Did I understand right ?


Best

François

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Yes. The key issue of how to raise the density is discussed in 
https://sumo.dlr.de/docs/Tutorials/FundamentalDiagram.html


Am Fr., 27. Aug. 2021 um 14:16 Uhr schrieb François Vaudrin 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:

Hello,


I would like to generate around 2000 vehicles per hour to validate the capacity 
of a road with SUMO. According to the HCM Guide (and the Fundamental  Diagram), 
the capacity of a road is approximately 2000 veh / h / lane. If this number is 
exceeded, slowdown and congestion are expected to occur.


Is it possible to see this phenomenon in SUMO-GUI when this threshold is 
reached during a simulation ?


Thank you


François


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