Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2021, 23(2):C23-C29 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2021.2.C23-C29

A Framework Coupling VISSIM and OMNeT++ to Simulate Future Intelligent Transportation Systems

Tibor Petrov ORCID...1, Ilya Finkelberg ORCID...2, Nina Zarkhin2, Peter Počta ORCID...3, Ľuboš Buzna ORCID...4, Ayelet Gal-Tzur ORCID...2, Tatiana Kováčiková ORCID...1, Tomer Toledo ORCID...2, Milan Dado ORCID...3
1 Department of International Research Projects - ERAdiate+, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
2 Transportation Research Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
3 Department of Multimedia and Information - Communication Technologies, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
4 Department of International Research Projects - ERAdiate+, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia and Department of Mathematical Methods and Operations Research, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia

With the spread of connected vehicles (CVs), a growth of novel information services exploiting data transmitted by CVs is expected. Wireless communication systems, in particular in vehicular applications, operate with a varying level of transmission reliability, which may affect the quality of V2X-data-driven intelligent transport systems (ITS). Therefore, the performance of ITS should be evaluated in a variety of conditions and the configuration of parameters should be fine-tuned in a safe testbed, using computer simulations. A simple framework is presented, which couples VISSIM traffic simulation and OMNeT++ communication networks simulation in real time, enabling an assessment of the relationship between a communication reliability and transport service quality. A functionality of the framework is demonstrated by applying it to a scheme controlling signalized intersections while estimating traffic flows from the V2I data.

Keywords: connected vehicles; traffic control; communications reliability; simulation framework

Received: June 30, 2020; Accepted: August 10, 2020; Prepublished online: January 15, 2021; Published: April 1, 2021  Show citation

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Petrov, T., Finkelberg, I., Zarkhin, N., Počta, P., Buzna, Ľ., Gal-Tzur, A., ... Dado, M. (2021). A Framework Coupling VISSIM and OMNeT++ to Simulate Future Intelligent Transportation Systems. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 23(2), C23-29. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2021.2.C23-C29
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