Dynamic guidance systems accounting for real-time and predicted traffic conditions are still under experimentation and, although most of the research seems to show that potential benefits, for the user as well as for the whole traffic system, are to be expected from guidance, still remain many unclear aspects that should be investigated. Microscopic simulation appears as perhaps the most suitable tool to analyze dynamic guidance systems, combining the ability to capture the full dynamics of the time dependent traffic phenomena with the capability to track individual vehicles. This paper presents and discusses the simulation results for a real urban network with the AIMSUN2 microsimulator. The simulation experiments analyze the expected benefits depending on the quality of the used routes. (A*)
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