Traffic simulation is an important and inevitable way to create and analyze certain traffic situations, while it also helps us to test and validate novel control methods and their effects on these complex systems. In this post, we collected the majority of the available traffic simulators and their properties.
| Road Traffic Simulator | Macroscopic | Mesoscopic | Microscopic | Open source |
| Aimsun | x | x | ||
| ARCADY | x | |||
| ATS | x | x | ||
| Cellular Automaton applet | x | x | ||
| CityTrafficSimulator | x | x | ||
| CORSIM | x | |||
| Cube | x | x | ||
| Dynameq | x | |||
| DYNASMART | x | |||
| Emme | x | |||
| Kelly Liu’s applet | x | x | ||
| LISA | x | |||
| Martin Treiber | x | x | ||
| MATSim | x | x | ||
| MovSim | x | x | ||
| OmniTRANS | x | |||
| PTV SW (VISSIM, VISUM, OPTIMA, etc.) | x | x | ||
| Quadstone Paramics | x | |||
| Schreckenberger model | x | x | ||
| Sidra | x | |||
| SUMO | x | x | ||
| TransModeler (Caliper) | x |