[sumo-user] Incorporating free-moving vehicles within SUMO

[Linwood Hudson <vtkougrr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

As I contemplate applications for SUMO, I'm wondering whether there have ever been integrations of "free-moving vehicles" within the SUMO simulation? By that I mean vehicles moving around without any regard for networks/edges/nodes. Some examples include:

- A vehicle going "off-road" to move between edges

- Ships moving around in a body of water based on an AIS data feed

- A manually controlled vehicle moving around in the simulation (e.g. controlled by a live person with a joystick) while other "normal" vehicles interact with it

These all seem outlandish, but are real-world integrations that I'd love to experiment with. Wondering if anything like this has been attempted before.

Thanks!