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TraCI4Matlab: Enabling the Integration of the SUMO Road Traffic Simulator and Matlab® Through a Software Re-engineering Process

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Modeling Mobility with Open Data

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SUMO (Simulation of Urban Mobility) has become one of the preferred open-source platforms for researchers to perform microscopic road traffic simulation. Thanks to the Traffic Control Interface (TraCI), SUMO offers a high level of flexibility, allowing a client to retrieve and modify the objects in the simulation. Two implementations of TraCI have been released to date for Python (TraCI-Python) and Java (TraCI4j). On the other hand, Matlab® is a software tool with a programming language with a broad user’s community of researchers. Matlab is used in many tasks on simulation, control, optimization and it is a preferred tool for rapid prototyping. Both platforms share strengths that benefit the development of control strategies for road traffic. The desire of combining both strengths motivated the interest to develop a TraCI implementation for Matlab. This chapter describes an adaptive software re-engineering process of TraCI-Python used to implement TraCI4Matlab (TraCI for Matlab).

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This work was supported by Proyecto Colciencias 111856934640 contrato 941-2012: Modelamiento y Control de tráfico urbano en la ciudad de Medellín. Convocatoria 569.

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  1. Politécnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid, Cra 48 No 7-151, Medellin, Colombia

    Jorge E. Espinosa

  2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Cra 80 No. 66-223, Medellin, Colombia

    Andrés F. Acosta & Jairo Espinosa

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Acosta, A.F., Espinosa, J.E., Espinosa, J. (2015). TraCI4Matlab: Enabling the Integration of the SUMO Road Traffic Simulator and Matlab® Through a Software Re-engineering Process. In: Behrisch, M., Weber, M. (eds) Modeling Mobility with Open Data. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15024-6_9

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