Transactions on Transport Sciences 2013, 6(4):177-184 | DOI: 10.2478/v10158-012-0045-9

Design Methodology of a Fuzzy Control System in PTV VISSIM

M. Koukol*,1, O. Přibyl2
1 CTU in Prague, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Department of Applied Informatics in Transport, Prague, Czech Republic
2 CTU in Prague, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Department of Applied Mathematics, Prague, Czech Republic

Fuzzy logic has been a popular tool for addressing advanced control tasks lately. This is true even in transportation, where it has been used for tasks such as ramp metering, control of traffic lights, as well as, for example, within highway management. Before application on a real street, however, such a control algorithm has to be evaluated and tested. In recent years, a so called microsimulation approach has been accepted as a useful tool for such tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that PTV VISSIM can also be used for the evaluation of advanced control algorithms, even without the use of API. In this way, even without a knowledge of classic programming languages such as C ++ or Java, any fuzzy control algorithm can be implemented directly in the microsimulation tool and its effect on traffic directly evaluated. The ability to do this can be an important decision criterion when selecting a microsimulation tool, as was the case for example in the early stages in project SIRID (TA CR ALFA 2012 Technology Agency of the Czech Republic). The presented approach within this paper is demonstrated on a real world problem of a single intersection control.

Keywords: Microsimulation, PTV VISSIM, VisVAP, fuzzy logic, traffic control.

Published: December 1, 2013  Show citation

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Koukol, M., & Přibyl, O. (2013). Design Methodology of a Fuzzy Control System in PTV VISSIM. Transactions on Transport Sciences, 6(4), 177-184. doi: 10.2478/v10158-012-0045-9
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