Traffic simulation is gaining a considerable amount of significance in offline simulation, besides already playing an important role in driving simulation projects.

Offline traffic simulation complements driving simulation as well as field trials by creating similar situations with Monte Carlo methods.

PELOPS ( www.pelops.de) is a traffic simulation tool we have been utilizing for many years. With it we fulfill customer specific extensions on driver models, have cooperated in the development of a data model for the imaging of a vehicle environment and have also created an environment to link Matlab models.

The development environment is set in C++ and occasionally in Fortran. Linux is the applied operating system. Virtual machines can be applied to make PELOPS traffic simulation available to Windows users.