SUMO Network

SUMO is an open traffic simulator that models every car separately. People use it to see what happens to a district if a street is closed, a lane is added or the traffic light phases are changed. The road network is described by an XML file: street edges, junction nodes, lanes and the connections between them.

Usually the network is obtained from OpenStreetMap with a separate utility, and that means fiddling with settings and cleaning the data. Our export hands you a ready network for the chosen area right away — convenient for a study assignment, a quick test of a hypothesis or a demonstration.

What is in the archive: the road network file and a configuration that is enough to launch a simulation. The streets are taken from OSM together with the road type, the number of lanes (up to eight) and the permitted speed by class; the coordinates are converted from latitude and longitude into local meters.

What the network does not have: traffic light programs and travel demand. Traffic light logic is set in SUMO separately, and vehicle routes are generated with the standard utilities — without them the simulation will start, but nobody will drive down the streets.