Section: New Results

Evaluation of dual mode transport system by event-driven simulation

Participants : Arnaud de La Fortelle, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Thomas Liennard.

The European project CATS — City Alternative Transport System — is developing and evaluating a new vehicle system using a single type of vehicle for two different usages: individual use or collective transport. Real experiments will necessarily take place with a limited number of vehicles and stations. Hence, there is a need for evaluation using simulations.

We are developing a discrete events simulator for that purpose, which model relies on an adapted events/decision graph. The new feature of this model is the way we deal with two modes that can be extended to many other modes. This work therefore shows on a concrete example a method to efficiently merge multiple modes into one model.

This year has seen a partial rewrite of the simulator in order to make it more generic and handle the new setting of the CATS project with automated vehicles.