Aurora Object-Oriented Framework © is a set of generic Java classes and interfaces that can be
used as base objects in applications that model flow networks, such as road networks, networks of irrigation canals, or oil
and gas pipelines. Any network consists of directed links, nodes and monitors. A substance (traffic, water, oil or gas, etc.)
flows through the links that connect the nodes. Nodes can be simple, used to connect one or more input with one or more output
links, and complex, which are networks themselves. Simple nodes host local controllers that control flows coming into a node
from the input links. Complex nodes make the
Aurora network structure hierarchical. Monitors are special
objects whose purpose is to monitor the state of specified links and nodes and feed the observed data to complex controllers,
whose purpose is the coordinated control of multiple nodes, or generate events. Events change network configuration or inputs.
They can be generated by user and triggered at user-specified times, or by monitors and triggered based on the data observed
by those monitors.
Aurora Road Network Modeler (RNM) © is a set of tools for operational
planning and management of travel corridors (road networks comprised of freeways and surrounding urban arterials), which is
based on
Aurora Object-Oriented Framework. It consists of three graphical applications with intuitive user
interface:
Simulator runs macroscopic traffic simulations based on the CTM model, allowing the user to create simulation
scenarios by means of events that change specific configuration parameters of the road network at specific times;
Configurator
is used to build road network configurations from scratch or edit the existing ones; and
GIS Importer extracts
road information from the GIS databases and saves it in the XML format of Aurora configuration file.
For details
and downloads, please visit
Aurora RNM Homepage.
