software/libraries for traffic road simulation

Question

I am interested about road traffic simulation. In particular, I'd like to play with math and graph theory, and try to build algorithms for traffic management. I don't know much about the software used in this specific field, so I'd like to have a short list of the de facto standards for traffic simulation with related links for tutorial/software download.

Answer 1

You might want to look over on http://gis.stackexchange.com to see if there are people over there who work with routing and traffic management.

Answer 2

Aimsun is a huge expensive software that is used by engineers and universities around the world.

I used it while in school for a driving simulation for doing human studies.

Answer 3

If you're looking for something very mathematical and free, Clawpack has been used for modeling traffic. A simple model code is here. I think more complicated things have been done with it; I suggest asking on the project's Google group.

You might get more answers if you post this on the new http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/.