Conradie, Dirk CURas, HMentz, F2008-09-032008-09-032008-07Conradie, DCU, Ras, H and Mentz, F. 2008. Use of agent based simulation for traffic safety assessment. Partnership for research and progress in Transportation. 27th Southern African Transport Conference (SATC), Pretoria, South Africa, July 7-11, 2008, pp 434-444978-1-920017-34-7http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2450Paper presented at the 27th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 7 - 11 July 2008 "Partnership for research and progress in transportation", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South AfricaThis paper describes the development of an agent based Computational Building Simulation (CBS) tool, termed KRONOS that is being used to work on advanced research questions such as traffic safety assessment and user behaviour in buildings. The intention is to provide better support for dynamic space-time related research as well as investigations into static built environment modelling and simulations such as people motion studies. The authors (CSIR researchers) view CBS as a technical specialization of Building Product Models (BPM). The research findings, supported by a traffic safety case study and other precedent research, indicate that traffic safety assessment can not be predicted through vehicular traffic micro simulation models alone. It must be understood as a contextual product of both vehicles, drivers, pedestrians, animals and the environment. To study traffic safety requires both advanced static and dynamic capabilities. The research team created a modelling and simulation environment based on a BPM. Within this environment agents and props were placed to dynamically simulate and predict emergent behaviour. The data from this case study and other precedent case studies used in KRONOS indicated that the agent based micro modelling approach is feasibleenTraffic safety assessmentUser behaviourUser behaviourSATCConference PresentationConradie, D. C., Ras, H., & Mentz, F. (2008). Use of agent based simulation for traffic safety assessment. Southern African Transport Conference (SATC). http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2450Conradie, Dirk CU, H Ras, and F Mentz. "Use of agent based simulation for traffic safety assessment." (2008): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2450Conradie DC, Ras H, Mentz F, Use of agent based simulation for traffic safety assessment; Southern African Transport Conference (SATC); 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2450 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Conradie, Dirk CU AU - Ras, H AU - Mentz, F AB - This paper describes the development of an agent based Computational Building Simulation (CBS) tool, termed KRONOS that is being used to work on advanced research questions such as traffic safety assessment and user behaviour in buildings. The intention is to provide better support for dynamic space-time related research as well as investigations into static built environment modelling and simulations such as people motion studies. The authors (CSIR researchers) view CBS as a technical specialization of Building Product Models (BPM). The research findings, supported by a traffic safety case study and other precedent research, indicate that traffic safety assessment can not be predicted through vehicular traffic micro simulation models alone. It must be understood as a contextual product of both vehicles, drivers, pedestrians, animals and the environment. To study traffic safety requires both advanced static and dynamic capabilities. The research team created a modelling and simulation environment based on a BPM. Within this environment agents and props were placed to dynamically simulate and predict emergent behaviour. The data from this case study and other precedent case studies used in KRONOS indicated that the agent based micro modelling approach is feasible DA - 2008-07 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Traffic safety assessment KW - User behaviour KW - User behaviour KW - SATC LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2008 SM - 978-1-920017-34-7 T1 - Use of agent based simulation for traffic safety assessment TI - Use of agent based simulation for traffic safety assessment UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2450 ER -