Dear all,

Hello, I am a college student working with a small group in order to use
reinforcement learning to optimize traffic light signals. We have decided
to use SUMO for our research, however since we are all unfamiliar with the
software we have run into many problems, namely, importing real world
traffic sensor data into SUMO to simulate the data in SUMO's gui interface
and use the data to train an agent.

The dataset that we are currently working with is from the city of Austin,
Texas and provides information on the volume of vehicles as well as the
average speed of the vehicles in the last 15 minutes (linked here if it is
helpful:
https://data.austintexas.gov/Transportation-and-Mobility/Radar-Traffic-Counts/i626-g7ub/).
In doing some research online it appears that the way we are supposed to
convert this raw data into usable data for SUMO is to create random trips
using the included randomtrips.py and then use calibrators in order to have
the amount of vehicles in the simulation align with the volume data from
the dataset.

My question is if there is any recent discussion, code example, helpful
video/article, or any sort of information/directions that can be linked to
or given to me so that I can better understand how this process works. In
other words, I am hoping someone is able to better explain how I am able to
simulate real traffic sensor data in SUMO or link to me previous
discussion/documentation on this topic as I am sure it has been done
before. As I stated earlier I, and the rest of my group, am not familiar
with SUMO so we are all unsure how to proceed after getting our dataset.

In addition, if anyone has some helpful information/articles/videos or
previous discussion on using reinforcement learning or machine learning in
SUMO I would greatly appreciate if that could be linked as well. Once we
are able to get the data into SUMO, we would have to train an agent to
optimize the traffic lights at the given intersection, and we wouldn't have
an idea on what that looks like in the sumo environment. I would also love
if any other datasets that would be "easier" (more straightforward to
import into SUMO) to work with would be shared, as the current dataset is
not set in stone.

This project will last until May and I can already predict that we will run
into many roadblocks working with SUMO, so I thank you in advance for any
help you may be able to provide now and in the future.

Thank you,
Justin
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