A Semantic Road Network Model for traffic simulations in virtual environments: Generation and integration

Haubrich, Tobias; Seele, Sven; Herpers, Rainer; Müller, Martin; Becker, Peter W.

doi:10.1109/searis.2014.7152800

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“…It uses a simple element hierarchy to describe the road network. OpenDRIVE road network specification has been used to develop many applications such as Prototyping of advance driving assistance system Integration of road network logic in virtual reality Conversion of measured data from real road to OpenDRIVE data to develop virtual models of real roads Fusion of alternative data sources such as cadastral or mobile mapping data to generate OpenDRIVE data of real road network OpenDRIVE provides a standard representation mechanism for information related to roads to develop transportation‐related computer applications. MovSim also uses OpenDRIVE specification to represent road logic information to simulate traffic.…”

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A smart integrated environment for vehicular traffic simulation

Mubasher

Jaffry

Yousaf

et al. 2019

Int J Communication

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Summary Globally, urbanization has increased due to the availability of the facilities, jobs, and better standard of living in cities. Increase in urban population has caused increase in urban commute. The increased pressure on urban settlements has made design and optimization of urban civil infrastructure very challenging especially road transport infrastructure. Domain experts such as transportation managers, engineers, scientist, and academics need effective, easy, and readily usable computational modeling and simulation tools to conduct systematic inquiry for design and optimization of the transportation system. Free and open‐source software (FOSS) community has developed many vehicular traffic simulation software that are cost‐effective and extensible, however are difficult to use. Usually, domain experts do not have hands‐on software skills such as XML‐based interfaces, software source versioning, and build management. To bridge this gap, in our work, an integrated development environment (IDE), namely, integrated vehicular traffic simulation environment (ITE), has been developed. ITE is developed on top of an existing FOSS multimodal open‐source vehicular‐traffic simulator (MovSim). ITE includes a scenario building tool for domain experts. It could be used to model road infrastructure and vehicular traffic in an integrated manner. The tool could be used to build and experiment novel traffic infrastructures and policies. Our work helps in reducing learning curve of domain experts by providing a free and open source, easy and readily usable vehicular traffic simulation tool.

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A smart integrated environment for vehicular traffic simulation

Mubasher

Jaffry

Yousaf

et al. 2019

Int J Communication

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“…One of the main benefits of OpenDRIVE is the assurance of seamless exchange of models between different simulators. Other works, such as [10], have extended the OpenDRIVE format with further semantic information and partially automate the creation of meaningful maps.…”

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Automatic Conversion of Road Networks from OpenDRIVE to Lanelets

Althoff

Urban

Koschi

2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI)

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Detailed road maps are an important building block for autonomous driving. They accelerate creating a semantic environment model within the vehicle and serve as a backup solution when sensors are occluded or otherwise impaired. Due to the required detail of maps for autonomous driving and virtual test drives, creating such maps is quite labor-intensive. While some detailed maps for fairly large regions already exist, they are often in different formats and thus cannot be exchanged between companies and research institutions. To address this problem, we present the first publicly available converter from the OpenDRIVE format to lanelets-both representations are among the most popular map formats. We demonstrate the capabilities of the converter by using publicly available maps.

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