marcusgitaccount/traffic-simulation-cluj-napoca

Prototyping a traffic simulator for Cluj-Napoca using html5 canvas and a lot of maths and basic AI.

Traffic Simulator for Cluj-Napoca

!! Not fully documented repo, future updates will fix this.

About

This projects aims to create a traffic simulator for Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The firsts steps are to choose a zone to represent(in this case Mihai Viteazu Square, main central area of the town as seen in the printscreen below) on the scene(canvas) and create a prototype that will be used in the near future to develop the traffic AI and roads and road logic.

http://prntscr.com/gke16s

Currently developed

• Roadsystem created with a multigraph and linked lists of 2D vectors. (as seen here: http://prntscr.com/h6ht77)
• Math utils for linear algebra problems that occured during the project development and more.
• Mockup api for fetching the points for the roads.
• Data structures such as Queue, Stack, BinaryHeap, PriorityQueue, LinkedList, Multigraph etc..
• Models such as Road, Car (they are currently in development)

Currently working on:

• Updating the Car model and creating the AI for cars. (will be using graphs to easy work with distances between cars)
• Updating the Road model
• Enhancing the API.
• 2D Car representation and physics (acceleration, deceleration, braking, ground friction, steering, maintaining distance from objects near, overtaking other cars in the same lane, changing lanes, etc..)
• Creating a 2D Vector model with the basic operations needed and putting togheter the existing utilitary functions in the the class Vector2D
• Changing the road friction based on the weather type(dry road = standard, wet road, snowy, etc..)

TO-DO:

• create a user dashboard for inserting multiple cars
• create an interface for users to select the area of the city to simulate traffic on
• create weather conditions
• add road obstacles

Installation

• clone the repo
• npm i
• npm start

Notes:

• 1°. You may have to change the environment variables IP and PORT as they are by default set to 0.0.0.0 and 8080.
• 2°. No transcripters/loaders such as babel are used to transforms the ES6 code. The project makes use of the ES6 module system and await/async implemented in Chromes 61's V8 engine.
• 3°. The api is currently just a mockup that sends data collected from Google Maps by hand. :(

Technologies used:

• NodeJS version > 8.5.0
• ES6 JS
• 2D canvas api

License

License link(gplv3)