A software environment to integrate urban traffic simulation tasks

Abstract

This paper deseribes the CA TIA software environment, whieh is oriented to tool integration. The main funetionality provided by CA TIA is the ability to support the traffie engineer throughout several phases and tools that are demanded to analyze urban traffie systerns. An open architecture eombined with an objeet-oriented data model of the applieation domain provides for advantageous features when eompared to elassieal tools and engineering environment for CATE (Computer Aided Traffie Engineering). The modeling, implementation and obtained results are deseribed, emphasizing the arehiteeture of the inter-tool eommunieation faeilities.