About Eclipse SUMO

Eclipse SUMO is a free and open source traffic simulation suite. It was started in 2001 by employees of the Institute of Transportation Systems at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). SUMO allows modelling of intermodal traffic systems - including road vehicles, public transport and pedestrians. Included with SUMO is a wealth of supporting tools that automate core tasks for the creation, the execution and evaluation of traffic simulations, such as network import, route calculations, visualization and emission calculation. SUMO can be enhanced with custom models and provides various APIs to remotely control the simulation.

In 2018 SUMO became a project at the Eclipse Foundation. Today, the main development continues to be driven by employees at the DLR, with contributions from our growing user community!



Application Areas

SUMO has been used within several projects for answering a large variety of research questions:

  • Evaluate the performance of traffic lights, including the evaluation of modern algorithms up to the evaluation of weekly timing plans.
  • Vehicle route choice has been investigated, including the development of new methods, the evaluation of eco-aware routing based on pollutant emission, and investigations on network-wide influences of autonomous route choice.
  • SUMO was used to provide traffic forecasts for authorities of the City of Cologne during the Pope’s visit in 2005 and during the Soccer World Cup 2006.
  • SUMO was used to support simulated in-vehicle telephony behavior for evaluating the performance of GSM-based traffic surveillance.
  • SUMO is widely used by the V2X community for both, providing realistic vehicle traces, and for evaluating applications in an on-line loop with a network simulator.
  • AI training of traffic light plans.
  • Simulation of the traffic effects of autonomous vehicles and platoons.
  • Simulation and validation of autonomous driving function in cooperation with other simulators.
  • Simulation of parking traffic.
  • Simulation of railway traffic for AI-based dispatching of vehicles.
  • Traffic safety and risk analysis.
  • Calculation of emissions (noise and pollutants).

Components

The SUMO package contains the following applications:

sumo

command line simulation

sumo-gui

simulation with a graphical user interface

netconvert

network importer

netedit

visual editor for network elements

netgenerate

abstract networks generator

od2trips

converter from O/D matrices to trips

duarouter

routes generator based on a dynamic user assignment

jtrrouter

routes generator based on turning ratios at intersections

dfrouter

route generator with use of detector data

marouter

macroscopic user assignment based on capacity functions

polyconvert

imports geometrical shapes and convert them to be visualized using sumo-gui

activitygen

compute mobility wishes based on population

emissionsMap

emission map generator

emissionsDrivingCycle

calculates emission values based on a given driving cycle

osmWebWizard

generate a SUMO scenario with just a few clicks


And many other Tools!

SUMO is licensed under the Eclipse Public License V2. “Eclipse SUMO” is a trademark of the Eclipse Foundation. If you use SUMO, please support its development by telling us about your projects, products and publications.

Citing SUMO

When citing SUMO in general, please use our current reference publication: “Microscopic Traffic Simulation using SUMO” ; Pablo Alvarez Lopez, Michael Behrisch, Laura Bieker-Walz, Jakob Erdmann, Yun-Pang Flötteröd, Robert Hilbrich, Leonhard Lücken, Johannes Rummel, Peter Wagner, and Evamarie Wießner. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2018.

BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{8569938,
  author={Lopez, Pablo Alvarez and Behrisch, Michael and Bieker-Walz, Laura and Erdmann, Jakob and Flötteröd, Yun-Pang and Hilbrich, Robert and Lücken, Leonhard and Rummel, Johannes and Wagner, Peter and Wiessner, Evamarie},
  booktitle={2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)}, 
  title={Microscopic Traffic Simulation using SUMO}, 
  year={2018},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={2575-2582},
  keywords={Tools;Microscopy;Roads;Data models;Urban areas;Vehicle dynamics;Mathematical model},
  doi={10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569938}
  }
DOI

Since SUMO v.1.2.0, every release has had a unique digital object identifier (DOI) for citing set version.

  • Latest release (version 1.26.0):
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