TrafficNet

Traffic Net is a traffic simulation. Cars drive around the network making random turns, creating traffic jams, and riding bumpers.

Application Road Map

Upcoming Features

• Animate the cars to refect model changes
• Create real world road network
• Create fixed path routing (i.e., bus routes)
• Place traffic devices on road (i.e., counters, pollution detectors)
• Place traffic signs on road

Completed Features

• Update Map Key with fire engine
• Stopping car when fire engine approaches from behind
• Fire Engine
• Tailgating
• Random turns at intersections
• Write network state to console.log (state button)
• Step a single frame at a time (step button)
• Animate the cars to refect traffic changes over time
• Start and stop model (start and stop buttons)
• Port traffic model from Java
• Automatically generate cars on road network using SVG
• Initialize road network using SVG
• Build a JSON file to describe a road network (multi-segment roads, one way roads, speed-limit by road, one or more turns, dead ends)
• Build a self-contained application to model traffic

Techniques and Technologies

• Animation (d3.v4.min.js)
• Game Loop Animation
• Drawing (SVG)
• Geographic Data (JSON)
• Java Traffic Model (GITHub)
• Responsive (modernizr-2.8.3-respond-1.4.2.min.js)
• Google Cloud (dreamfactory stack)