Overview

History
SUMO was started as an open source project in year 2000. The idea was to support the traffic research community with a common platform to test and compare models of vehicle behaviour, traffic light optimisation, routing etc.

Package Contents
The package contains the following applications:

• command-line simulation (SUMO)
• simulation with a graphical user interface (GUI)
• network builder/converter (NETCONVERT)
• network builder/generator (NETGEN)
• OD-matrix to trip definitions converter (OD2TRIPS)
• a router using a dynamic user assignement approach (DUAROUTER)
• a router using junction ratio descriptions (JTRROUTER)
• a router using induction loop measures (DFROUTER)
• a polygon importer (POLYCONVERT)

Used Models
The car movement model is a microscopic, space-continuous and time-discrete car-following model developed by Stefan Krauß (see [Krauss1998_1], [Krauss1998_2]). The traffic assignment is made using the DUA-approach by Christian Gawron (see [Gawron1998_1]).

Licence
SUMO is using the GPL-license.

Design Principles
From the begin on the following design principles were followed: the software has to be as portable and as fast as possible. The first is reached by usage of the standard C++ - functions only, the second by using Krauß' fast car-following model for the computation of vehicle movements. Other limitations such as the memory usage are not considered that much, although a simulation of large areas shall be possible on normal desktop computers.

Current Version
Please take a look into the downloads section for the information about the current version.

Further Information
You may find some further information about SUMO in the documentation section.