A novel vehicular mobility modelling technique for developing ITS applications

Abstract

This paper presents a novel technique to extract important road parametric values from a validated microscopic mobility model based on VanetMobiSim. The model simulates a 100 km2 urban road scenario taken from the area of Newcastle, Australia and measures various route parameters at different vehicle densities on the road. The mobility traces obtained from the model were analyzed in MATLAB to derive the road informatics such as route based speed, journey time, average waiting time and normalized traffic density at a particular intersection in an open loop manner. It is expected that the informatics will contribute to the development of various Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) applications such as motor or vehicular tailpipe emission modelling, minimizing traffic congestions including fuel consumption and intersection management. (5 pages)