Mon 28-Apr-2008: Traffic simulators …

Some links on “traffic simulator” python:

-          Java based traffic simulator: http://141.30.186.11/%7Etreiber/MicroApplet/index.html

-          Go through the Wiki links on this page: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/cgi-bin/wiki/SimPy?action=edit&id=SimulationLinks from the SimPy website (a simulation language based on Python)

-          PyODE an open-source Physics engine

-          a Science Hobbyist page on why traffic happens: http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html

-          using PyGame to create a simulator …

-          Traffic Microsimulation Suite PAMINA … with links to a cellular automata traffic simulator: http://www.the-rickerts.de/mr/PAMINA.html#PHYSICAA95

-          Using Sumo, a Simulation of Urban Mobility, to model car models: link

Mon 28-Apr-2008: Notes from F2F …

… from Frii 25-Apr-2008:

1. look at bin packing for optimal packing of oranges
2. look for a traffic flow simulator, pref. written in Python
3. there is a Postgraduate conference taking place in September, around same time as vivas. Need to find out submission date
4. publishing a paper effectively marks your territory
5. writing style — look at:
   1. Cybernetics writing style: https://redgloo.sse.reading.ac.uk/seconference/files/-1/387/school_style_guide.pdf
   2. Will Browne’s homepage
   3. How to get a PhD book
   4. Reading writing a report guides
6. NB remember to plan the transfer report: what it will look like
7. Solution techniques cf. what people have done with problems
   1. important criteria, features, issues
   2. what techniques were applied, on what platforms
8. NB you will probably be writing an Aim:
   1. do not use “prove”: use shown, demonstrate, etc
   2. need to include Problem Definition, Aim, Hard Constraints, Soft Constraints, Criteria of Measurement
   3. (Hypothesis and Aim are different)

Mon 28-Apr-2008: Current plan …

Plan forwards currently looks like this:

• - 28-Apr
• - 05-May
• - 12-May Aim of research complete
• - 19-May
• - 26-May
• - 02-Jun
• - 09-Jun
• - 16-Jun
• - 23-Jun
• - 30-Jun
• - 07-Jul
• - 14-Jul Transfer report complete
• - 21-Jul
• - 28-Jul
• - 04-Aug
• - 11-Aug
• - 18-Aug
• - 25-Aug
• - 01-Sep Hand in transfer report
• - 08-Sep
• - 15-Sep
• - 22-Sep
• - 29-Sep Transfer viva; PG conference

Changes may happen — particularly due to submission date for PG conference — but this is where we are currently.