Application of Traffic Simulation SOUNDto the Tokyo Metropolitan Network

摘要

This study introduces an application of traffic simulation SOUND developed at the Universityof Tokyo to model the Tokyo metropolitan network. The purpose of this study is todemonstrate the applicability of the traffic simulation model to a substantially large scalenetwork, and to suggest the use of traffic simulators for various network-wide analysesinstead of sticking to the static traffic assignment. The area of the Tokyo metropolitannetwork covers about the 50-km radius from the centre of Tokyo and the network consists ofmore than 170 thousand links, to which conventionally static assignment has been applied forplanning analyses.