In my master's thesis we used SUMO to model a small part of our town and hooked it up to the latest and greatest reinforcement learning algorithms to learn traffic light control. Eventually we beat all the other built in conventional algorithms in most parameters; Average speed. Emission. Etc.
I've been wanting to build a city builder using urban planning libraries like this
Imaging the simulation being running headless, decoupled from the GUI client
This looks really polished. I've always found crowd and traffic simulation fascinating.
The Projects page is worth looking at too.
I ride rental scooters almost 10k minutes per year and would really like to get my hands on my own ride data to plug it into something like this (or simpler) to find the optimal routes for my regular trips.
Google Maps (or others) works good to find a resonable route, but I can do better on my own. One-way streets where bikes are allowed to go do opposite way is sometimes missing, short desire paths connecting bike ways, crossings where it's safe to do an (illegal) right-on-red etc.
Tried a GDPR data claim from Voi but got nothing back :( But I hope the data is somehow available for urban planners, think it would be a great source of truth to use in tools like this.
Did my PhD with that - good/hard times
Any plans to deploy to the web?
How much do the various "Maps" apps change things? I have a longer commute, and when the freeway is clogged, Maps will direct me to an exit where I weave around town and country. There's usually a convoy of cars with me, but the freeway also seems to stay clogged.
This is fascinating. Even supports simulating multiple modes of transportation (ped, bicycle, car…).
I’ll have to give this a test run later.
Not to be confused with Suno - Simulation of Musical Ability :)
Since it's almost on-topic, anyone know if/how these tools emulate sustained irrational behavior?
Example:
For over a decade, the freeway on-ramp nearest my work had two main ways of getting to it from downtown. One of them involved a stop-sign crossing a road that had the right-of-way (i.e. a two-way stop). The other had timed traffic signals. Every evening around 5pm, the traffic would backup from the stop-sign for multiple blocks. Meanwhile the route with lights was completely smooth.
Eventually the stop-sign was replaced with a signal, but I marveled at how many people persisted in making their daily commute much worse than it needed to be.