| [sumo-user] modelling pedestrians correctly |
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Dear all, currently, when modelling pedestrians, I always use 'regular' edges and connections. This results in warnings (such as "Warning: Vehicle type '7' with vClass=pedestrian should only be used for persons and not for vehicle 'ped26'."), and sometimes pedestrians accidentally end up on the street (which I can solve by disallowing them). I do nonetheless because: it allows usage of E2 type detectors to detect presence of pedestrian-style vehicles, and it is easy to build the network cause I can just use regular connections. Pedestrians will stand in line at the intersection, but I am mostly interested in the general flow of traffic, and there are generally few pedestrians in the simulation. However, it would be nice to model the pedestrians more correctly. I wonder, given an intersection like this:
How can I build the network so that the pedestrians will only
cross from the sidewalk edges on the one side to the sidewalk
edges on the other side, and have a detector (button) on either
side of the crossing? Beause of the way my TraCI application
works, most preferably this would be an E2 detector. Should I create sidewalk-edges only in a single direction, since pedestrians can walk in two directions? If so, how to avoid pedestrians that just crossed the intersection from activating the detection? Actually all traffic has detectors, that I did add draw in the above simplified example. A typical intersection may look more like this:
And in the simulation like this (note a lot of traffic lights are
light blue, and thus actually not controlled):
any help is appreciated! Greets, Menno |
