Johannesburg and Pretoria, Province Gauteng, South Africa

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Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa. Due to the high urbanization (the two cities Johannesburg and Pretoria are part of Gauteng) the province has around 9 million inhabitants.

The scenario is currently built by researchers led by Dr. Johan W. Joubert at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The groundwork for the scenario was laid during a two-month stay of a Master student (Pieter J. Fourie) from South Africa in Berlin, where the essential steps of preparing network, travel demand, and traffic counts for validation, were done. Network data and zonal information was imported from GIS Shape files. Travel demand is based on census information. In an initial step, only commuting travelers are simulated, leading to the well-recognizable morning and evening rush hours, but without any other traffic occurring during the day.

The scenario is currently further extended with additional or more detailed data. It is planned, that the simulation should include in the future also paratransit-like public transport offerings.

Additional Information

• Fourie, P.J. and J.W. Joubert: The first agent steps in agent-based transport planning. Paper presented at the 28th Southern African Transport Conference, South Africa, 6-9 July 2009. pp. 43-52
• Fourie, P.J.: An initial implementation of a multi-agent transport simulator for South Africa. MEng dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 2009.

	Poster presented at Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2008 1.08 MB
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