InterSCSimulator: a scalable, open source, smart city simulator

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Eduardo Felipe Zambom
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Texto Completo: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/45/45134/tde-16072019-084815/
• topic: Cidades inteligentes; City simulation; Escalabilidade; Scalability; Simulação; Simulação de cidades; Simulação de trânsito; Simulation; Smart cities; Traffic simulation

Large cities around the world face numerous challenges to guarantee the quality of life of its citizens. A promising approach to cope with these problems is the concept of Smart Cities, of which the main idea is the use of Information and Communication Technologies to improve city services and infrastructure. Being able to simulate the execution of Smart Cities scenarios would be extremely beneficial for the advancement of the field and for governments. Such a simulator would need to represent a large number of agents such as cars, hospitals, and gas pipelines. One possible approach for doing this in a computer system is to use the actor model as a programming paradigm so that each agent corresponds to an actor. The Erlang programming language is based on the actor model and is the most commonly used implementation of it. In this thesis, we present the first version of InterSCSimulator, an open-source, extensible, large-scale traffic Simulator for Smart Cities developed in Erlang. Experiments showed that the simulator is capable of simulating millions of agents using a real map of a large city. We also present study cases which demonstrate the possible uses of the simulator such as tests new urban infrastructure and test the viability of future transportation modes.