THEORY OF NETWORK RELATED RESEARCH OF VEHICLES DYNAMICS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Transport and vehicles have great impact on peoples’ life every day. Continuous increase in traffic on the roads is leading to serious issues with congestion, safety and impact on the environment. This is especially emphasized in urban areas. Networks theoryhas been and is very interesting approach studying of vehicle dynamics in urban areas which can help addressing number of said issues. This research has also added regionaldimension which could help development and introducing ITS in similar environment. In this, early stage of research, the initial results showed that the approach of presenting road infrastructure as network (graph) in vehicle simulations proves to be good and opens opportunities for deeper research.