HIPERTRANS

High Performance Transport

  • Network Modelling and 
  • Simulation
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    Welcome to the HIPERTRANS Web site

    In this site you can obtain information about   

    What kind of PROBLEMS are we facing at?

    Traffic flow within an urban road network depends upon many factors: demand for journeys, driver behaviour, network capacity, responsive traffic control, driver information systems. Demand for journeys is increasing rapidly in Europe's crowded cities and towns. Increasing capacity by further construction of roads is no longer economic or acceptable to society. 
  •  Urban traffic control systems need to be more responsive, offering network managers a selection of strategies to match the variation in traffic conditions. These strategies need to be developed and tested, and operators trained to use them. 
  • Knowing how the traffic situation can develop over a horizon of several minutes is essential to managing traffic and to providing reliable driver information. Prediction of traffic flows needs to be integrated into the Urban Traffic Control system.
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    What does HIPERTRANS mean?

    HIPERTRANS is a collaborative project within the European Commission Research and Development Framework Programme IV, DG VII Transport. 
  •  HIPERTRANS will develop an accurate, high speed, and visually interactive, simulator of urban transport networks within a high-performance computing environment.
  •  HIPERTRANS simulator will be used by traffic systems suppliers to test urban traffic control systems. Network operators will use the simulator to test traffic management strategies and train operators.
  •  HIPERTRANS predictor will be used by network operators to forecast the changes to traffic flows on a real road network much faster than a real life system. 
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    What is HIPERTRANS for?

    The HIPERTRANS Objectives are: 
  • 1. Design and implementation of a traffic simulator and predictor that will be able to predict realistically within a 15 minute horizon the urban traffic behaviour, this simulator will be able to work integrated with at least two Urban Traffic Control systems: STU and SCOOT and will be capable of running on low cost popular platform: PCÆs under Windows.
  •  2. Demonstration that HPC computer-based simulation performs well on complex urban road network and is capable of handling realistic traffic volumes
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    • It is foreseen that HIPERTRANS will work with real traffic data coming from the STU systems, with these data HIPERTRANS will build a prediction of the future traffic conditions, the operator will be able to see these predictions on a GUI and will be able to take the actions on the UTC accordingly. In this way, HIPERTRANS will help traffic operators to have a better knowledge and control of the traffic conditions, improving the traffic performance, the safety and the enviromental aspects.

    How does HIPERTRANS work?

    HIPERTRANS will develop four main subsystems: 
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    1. A simulation Kernel in three stages: 
      • S1: Simulator prototype
      •  S2: Real time simulator
      •  S3: Predictor
    2. An interface between the simulator and the Urban Traffic Control System (UTC)
    3.  A traffic model library
    4.  A friendly Graphical User Interface 

    Who is HIPERTRANS addressed to?

  • It is foreseen that HIPERTRANS would interest to any institution, company or professional working on traffic control systems, it has special interest for European and national research programmes, traffic control system suppliers, traffic network operators, local authorities, educational establishments, traffic specialised magazines and publications and traffic consultants. 

    • Who is the HIPERTRANS consortium?

    University of Westminster 
  • Co-ordinating Partner
  • Dr Steve Winter 

    • University of Westminster 
    Centre for Parallel Computing 
    115 New Cavendish Street 
    London W1M 8JS 
  • Tel: +44 171 911 5099
  • Fax: +44 171 911 5143
  • Email: wintersc@wmin.ac.uk
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    ETRA 
  • Dissemination Partner
  • Antonio Marques

    • Tres Forques, 147
    46014 Valencia SPAIN
  • Tel: +34 6 379 63 62
  • Fax: +34 6 350 32 34
  • Email: Marques_etravlc.servicom.es
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  • WSAtkins 
  • Mike Hall 

    • WSAtkins
    Woodcote grove, Ashley Road
    Epsom KT18 5BW
  • Tel: +44 1372 726140 (2331)
  • Fax: 44 1372 740055
  • Email: mhall@wsatkins.co.uk
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    BKD Consultants 
  •  Barry Daniels

    • BKD Consultants
    10 Churchfields
    Croft, Warrington
    WA3 7JR
  • Tel: +44 370 520500
  • Fax: +44 1925 767816
  • Email: 100532.3627@compuserve.com
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    PEEK Traffic Ltd 
  •  Richard Pearce
  • Address
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    INRIA 
  • Philippe Mussi

    • INRIA Centre de Sophia Antipolis
    2004 Route des Lucioles
    BP93
    06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
    France
  • Tel: +33 4 9365 7891
  • Fax: +33 4 9365 7858
  • Email: Philippe.mussi@sophia.inria.fr
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    SIMULOG 
  • Luc Coyette

    • SIMULOG
    1 rue James Joule
    78286 Guyancourt 
    France
  • Tel: +33 1 30 12 27 25
  • Fax: +33 1 30 12 27 27
  • Email: coyette@simulog.fr
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    Universite Notre Dame de la Paix 
  • Philippe Toint

    • Transportation Research Group
    FUNDP
    Rempart de la Vierge
    B-5000 Namur
    Belgium
  • Tel: +32 8172 4917
  • Fax: +32 8172 4914
  • Email: pht@math.fundp.ac.be
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