Traffic Simulation Industry Insights.

Traffic simulation is an important application of computer technology in the field of transportation engineering. It can not only reproduce the technology of spatial and temporal changes of traffic flow, provide technical basis for road design and planning, but also compare and evaluate various parameters and evaluate the environmental impact. At the same time, the traffic simulation system can display the operation of vehicles on the road network very intuitively through computer animation, and it can be obvious which local locations are more prominent in traffic congestion and which places are more free. Therefore, traffic simulation has become an intuitive, convenient, flexible and effective traffic analysis tool for transportation engineering researchers to test and optimize various road traffic plans, design schemes, and describe complex road traffic phenomena.

China's transportation simulation software industry development history

    China began to develop traffic simulation system around 1990, in the early period of domestic traffic simulation development，It is mainly aimed at some relatively simple of traffic problems for research and simulation, but these studies for the actual traffic problems have not played a substantive role.

To this day, domestic transportation simulation research is mostly self-developed in a "separate government" style, without more contact and cooperation, and appears to be relatively fragmented, often limited to research solutions for a single problem. It is rarely considered in terms of large systems of the entire traffic environment, such as simulation studies of multi-lane traffic capacity, simulation of highway entrance ramp range, organizational optimization of signal intersections, simulation studies for overdrive models and lane transition models, and so on.

China Traffic Simulation Scale

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The status of patents

   So far, the number of patents related to transportation simulation in China is 519.

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Traffic Simulation Derived Industries - Size of the Smart Traffic Industry

   According to the data released by the Intelligent Transportation Association of China, from 2011 to 2022, the total size of China's intelligent transportation market increased from 42 billion to 165.8 billion yuan, with an annual growth rate of nearly 20%. It is expected that by 2026, the market size of the intelligent transportation industry will exceed 400 billion yuan, with an annual compound growth rate of about 16%. In the broader context of the industry, 68% are optimistic about market growth in the next five years, 15% are neutral, and only 17% are not optimistic about the market.

In terms of large-scale projects, in 2021, there were 21 urban intelligent transportation market projects (excluding parking projects) with a total market size of about 5.656 billion yuan. Among them, 7 projects won the bid in the traffic control market, totaling 1.784 billion yuan; The wisdom of the transport market won the bid of 13 billion projects, a total of 2.913 billion; One other project is 960 million yuan.

Future Development

The applications of future traffic simulation are also very wide , such as smart city , smart highway , self-driving , tunnel emergency , digital twin traffic and some large events .