Dear all,

my apologies if it has been discussed before, I tried to search the archives 
and did not find anything relevant.

For our simulation, I am pondering the possibility to switch from our old 
manually generated traffic to traffic generated from "observation points", in 
our case traffic counts at intersection detectors. The network we are working 
with represents a substantial part of Pilsen (CZ), it is approximately 10 x 10 
kilometers in size, and contains quite a number of small streets besides the 
main traffic corridors. The intersection detectors are located at the main 
corridors.

Given the absence of turning rates and other information (I might have an 
outdated O/D info somewhere, but I want to avoid it, if possible), I did some 
experiments with flowrouter.py and routeSampler.py, with rather pathetic 
results, I am afraid:

* flowrouter.py seems to pick up a few random locations in the residential 
areas of the network, and generate traffic that goes from those places into the 
main corridors and then leaves the corridor to some other location; as a 
result, the small streets in residential areas are completely blocked by 
traffic as their capacity cannot handle the traffic volume

* routeSampler.py does a better job but given the necessity of supplying it 
with a set of random routes, it tends to pick up several "most promising" 
routes from a quite large route file (cca 500MB) and while the traffic at the 
main corridors is definitely "nicer", the result is to some extent similar to 
the flowrouter.py, with traffic jams in different residential areas that in my 
opinion are now mostly related to low capacity and unregulated / priority 
intersections -- while the number of vehicle sources / destination points 
increases, the capacity of the network in the side streets in not sufficient to 
accommodate the traffic.

Note that our goal is to have realistic, but not necessarily exact replication 
of traffic in the city. We need to simulate the whole city with public 
transport and we want to determine how the daily traffic affects some parts of 
(trolley/e)bus routes.  

I think I am doing something wrong. Is there any additional howto / cookbook / 
manual regarding this besides the standard documentation 
(https://sumo.dlr.de/docs/Demand/Routes_from_Observation_Points.html)? I am 
aware of Michael's paper about routeSampler.py, but it does not help much in 
this context, I am afraid.

I can share the network, the scripts I am using and all the other files, of 
course -- the only problem is that the complete dataset is BIG (230MB zipped, 
2GB raw).

Thanks!

Jan

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Jan Přikryl
RICE FEL UWB  & CTU FTS
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