• Changes in versions 0.9.0 up to 0.9.10
Changes in versions 0.9.0 up to 0.9.10

Version 0.9.10 (16.09.2008)#

  • Simulation
    • solved "Simulation reports 'Error: The number of edges in the list mismatches the edge count.'"
    • solved several issues reported by Gerrit Lammert (thank you): false ordering of loaded stops, problems with stops near to an end edge
  • Guisim
    • vehicles now again have a default color
  • TraCI
    • patched building tracitestclient_main.cpp under Fedora Core 9 (thanks to Niek Sanders)
  • Tools
    • patched dua-iterate.py - --move-on-short does no longer exist

Version 0.9.9 (05.08.2008)#

  • Simulation
    • Hidden state loading/saving completely from the microsim
    • Vehicle may now end their route at a certain position of the route's last edge (see Specification)
    • The route may be now given as an attribute (route) within the vehicle definition (see Specification)
    • The vehicle now stores most of its definition parameters in myParameter, not as atomar values
    • Solved problems with multiple stop on same edge and with stops on lanes which can not be used for continuing the route; thanks to Friedemann Wesner and Gerrit Lammert for reporting them
    • Reworked mean data output. The vehicle movements are now weighted by the time the vehicle was on an edge/lane. Additional constraints for output (--exclude-empty-edges/--exclude-empty-lanes) allow to dump only information about edges/lanes which were occupied by vehicles.
    • debugged bug 1964433 different simulation results for different starting times; The issue was a false computation of WAUT switching and TLS offset times when choosing a different simulation begin time than 0
    • replaced MSVehicle::getInTransit and MSVehicle::running by MSVehicle::isOnRoad
    • removed MSEdge::isSource; was used only once and can be easily replaced by comparing the result of MSEdge::getPurpose()
    • debugged bug 1932105 second stop on the same edge confuses vehicles
    • debugged bug 1941846 repeatable crash with sumo r5378
    • debugged bug 1912547 linux 64 bit compile error for sumo svn 5143
    • debugged bug 1913655 command line sumo throws unknown exception
    • debugged bug 1924989 sumo r5186 crashes by pure virtual function call
    • begun work on Specification
      • all vehicles are emitted at position=0, with speed=0
    • removed usage of NLLoadFilter
    • added an option to quit the simulation if a number of vehicles is exceeded (--too-many-vehicles <INT>)
    • fully integrated Tino Morenz's MSVTypeProbe; moved it from microsim/trigger to microsim/output; tests added; a vtypeprobe is now defined within additional files this way: <vtypeprobe id="test1" type="" freq="10" file="vtypeprobe.xml"/> ("test1" is the vehicle type to report, leave empty in order to get information about all vehicles)
    • replaced usage of "Command" by encapsulating methods in "WrappingCommand" wherever possible
    • "debugged" usage of actuated/agent-based tls; should be covered by tests, in fact
    • further work on devices-consolidation
    • implemented a one-shot / multi-shot routing device
  • netconvert
    • debugged bug 1993928 --keep-edges.input-file does not remove empty nodes; as soon as one edge-removal(keeping) option occurs, nodes are rechecked whether they contain any further edge. If not, the node is removed.
    • VISUM-import: debugged failures due to false district node position computation
    • Connection building: made storing outgoing edge connections sane; replaced three strange storages by one
    • Disabled the support for setting an "edge function" - because vehicles are emitted the same (parametrised) way on each edge, we do not need a distinction between source and normal edges; sink edges were never distinguished.
    • Refactored the way edge types are stored in netconvert
    • removed "name" attribute from NBEdge; was not written anyway
    • work on SUMO-networks reimport (unfinished)
    • documentation: debugged bug 1909685 option "omit-corrupt-edges" not recognized (use --dismiss-loading-errors instead of --omit-corrupt-edges)
    • removed usage of NLLoadFilter
    • thanks to Christoph Sommer, the OSM importer now handles speed and lanes information; default OS values are now used, too
  • duarouter / jtrrouter
    • Removed option --move-on-short. It got obsolete as vehicles may start on edges which are shorter than they are, now.
  • duarouter
    • debugged bug 1981921 duarouter truncates routes; Now, --remove-loops only prunes the route if the vehicle would have to take a turnaround at the begin or end.
    • reworked handling of broken routes; longer routes are not replaced; incomplete routes may be corrected using the new --repair option
  • jtrrouter
    • Removed possibility to specify turning percentages using CSV files
  • dfrouter
    • Definition of emitters, vss, etc. are now written into the same folder as the declaration
  • TraCI
    • TraCI is now enabled as default
  • od2trips
    • due to being used for macroscopic demand definitions, od2trips now emits vehicles using departlane="best" and departspeed="max"
    • removed option to parse list of tables from a vissim file; they may be given at the command line (--vissim is no longer supported)
    • added the possibility to omit writing the vehicle type (--no-vtype)
  • Tools
    • added some tools for output visualization (mpl_dump_twoAgainst.py, mpl_tripinfos_twoAgainst.py, mpl_dump_timeline.py) (see Tools/Visualization)

Version 0.9.8 (07.02.2008)#

  • Building
    • MSVC8: extracted properties for build configurations into separate property files.
    • many coarse changes in directory/project due to resolving request 1641440
    • gui/dialogs, gui/drawerimpl, /utils/gui/events, /utils/gui/windows, /utils/gui/globjects, /utils/gui/tracker have now own projects
    • microsim/traffic_lights - project was named properly
    • netbuild/nodes, microsim/lanechanging, and all netimport classes but vissim import were moved one folder up
    • SUMOFrame was moved to microsim (renamed to MSFrame!)
    • utils/helpers and utils/router were moved to utils/common
  • all
    • added inline-documentation for utils/importio
  • simulation
    • debugged tls-coupled e2-output
    • debugged bug 1886198 Segmentation Fault; see comment; thanks to Helcio Bezerra de Mello for the bug report
    • further work on detectors
      • values revalidated and described output has changed
      • marked "measures" and "style" as deprecated
    • while looking for next links to use, the vehicle is now aware of his best lanes
    • simplified computation of best lanes
    • debugged bug 1871859 vehicles do not wait on lane end; thanks to Jensen Chou for the bug report
    • debugged bug 1871964 left-moving vehicles do not fill junction
    • patched error handling in emitters; tests added
    • debugged bug 1873155 vehicles with depart lower than begin are emitted; tests added
    • tests for rerouter added; partially debugged
    • added inline-documentation for microsim/output
    • debugging inner-junction simulation
    • refactoring detectors
      • MSDetector2File into MSDetectorControl
      • complete e1-refactoring
      • complete e2-refactoring
      • complete e3-refactoring
      • MSMeanData_Net_Cont is now simply a std::vector\<MSMeanData_Net*>
      • improved documentation
      • spell checking
  • removed MSUnit - the usage was bogus, often same functions were defined twice. Rather confusing. Added utils/common/PhysicalTypeDefs.h instead, as a new begin.
  • Removed MSNet's deltaT - was falsely used and duplicate with utils/common/SUMOTime
  • dfrouter
    • trying to make it more usable for inner-city scenarios with many connections
  • spell checking
    • renamed 'succeding' to 'succeeding'
    • guisim now shows internal lanes less wide
    • false left closure of leftmost lane shown in "real world" scheme debugged
  • removed utils/importio/CSVHelpers (was used once and contained a two-lines-method (sic!))
  • working on doxygen documentation (and adding throw-declarations)
    • utils/options
    • utils/iodevices
    • utils/importio
  • removing unneeded debug-helpers in microsim
  • debugged problems with repetition of vehicles that have a color within guisim (application terminated)
  • patched XMLSubSys documentation (was bug 1828803)
  • fixed vehicle decelerations when being on a higher priorised road (bug 1830266)
  • fixed netconvert bugs occurring when connected nodes are too close together (bugs 1639460, 1639436)
  • moved color out of MSVehicle (affects loading classes)
  • router import classes now process input colors as strings
  • consolidated XML-definitions
    • vehicle type is now called "type" in all cases
    • removed unneeded elements and attributes
  • (almost complete) rework of the microsimulation loop What was done, basically is to change the way vehicles move over junctions and how other vehicles get informed about vehicles approaching on incoming lanes. Quite heavy changes, in fact, I hope of benefit. You may read some further information on this in the following tracker items: bug 1840935: exchange of vehicles over lanes disallow fails with two vehs, bug 1840938: lane exchange mechanism ignores undefined lane order, bug 1840952: drop vehicle exchange in lane changer, bug 1840944: replace approaching information in lanes
  • Further work on inner-junction traffic (still not 100% complete)
  • speeding up simulation by not touching empty lanes
  • C2C was made optional (using defines) in order to reduce memory footprint; was: feature 1843267: make extensions optional

Version 0.9.7 (14.11.2007)#

  • 23.05.07: sumo-gui now contains storages for recent configs AND networks, usage of "RecentFiles" reworked
  • 23.05.07: DOCS: generated pdfs are copied to <SUMO_DIST>/docs
  • 24.05.07: DOCS: removed references to man-pages in docs section
  • 24.05.07: DOCS: links to FAQ and Publications point to the wiki now
  • 24.05.07: duarouter/SIM: removed the snipplet embedding prototype (was not yet used)
  • 24.05.07: TOOLS: added script to apply Astyle on the complete code
  • 24.05.07: TOOLS: flowrouter.py and flowFromRoutes.py can deal with non-integer flows
  • 24.05.07: TOOLS: flowrouter.py has an option to ignore detector types
  • 24.05.07: NETGEN: replaced an occurrence of rand() with randSUMO() and reworked the randomness code a little
  • 30.05.07: dfrouter: moved to the new exception-handling concept (see Developer/Implementation Notes/Error Handling)
  • 30.05.07: dfrouter: removed bug "[ 1724214 ] no user information about missing file description header"
  • 31.05.07: declaring ";" list divider as deprecated
  • 06.06.07: large code recheck: moved warning pragmas to windows-config; patched inclusion of the correct configuration file
  • 07.06.07: started to rework exception handling (no more XMLBuildingExceptions, mostly ProcessErrors)
  • 12.06.07: changed API for xml-handlers (now only supplying the numerical element ids); made handler functions not pure virtual
  • 12.06.07: made PROJ and GDAL optional
  • 20.06.07: new XML header in most output files
  • 22.06.07: Version info added automatically
  • 27./29.06.07: reworked computation of lane-to-lane directions and main direction (see also OpenProblems)
  • 02.07.07: Added tests for error handling while loading broken networks (sumo, jtrrouter, duarouter, dfrouter)
  • somewhere between: reworked application subsystem (removing OptionsSubSys)
  • renaming variables to the myVar scheme
  • 16.07.07: removed -l to be used as a shortcut for --lane-weights because -l is already used as a shortcut for --log-file (duarouter, jtrrouter)
  • 16.07.07: removed the omit-unbuild-edges - option; there should be no other functionality than for --dismiss-loading-errors (netconvert, NETGEN)
  • 17.07.07: refactored VISUM-net importer; now using 2 classes instead of 18 (netconvert)
  • 17.07.07: debugged sumo-gui's options handling
  • 17.07.07: removed support for ARTEMIS (never used since 2003)
  • OutputDevice supports TCP sockets
  • skipping MSVC6 / 7 support
  • DFRouter beautification
  • JTRRouter uses vehicle classes
  • possibility to switch traffic lights off
  • preparing subsecond simulation
  • Cell/Fastlane support removed
  • unsupported applications removed
  • starting detector refactorization
  • emitting at the end of the step
  • ITM-RemoteServer renamed to TraCI
  • Visual Studio 64bit build (without Proj, GDAL and Fox)
  • Route handling changed (multiref deprecated)

Version 0.9.6 (23.05.2007)#

  • polyconvert: possibility to prune the polygons to import on a bounding box added
  • DUA: Simulation may now load only a part of defined vehicles
  • netconvert:
    • debugged connections for on-ramps which already have the right number of lanes
    • debugged problems when using networks built without internal lanes in conjunction with (!!! use-internal in simulation)
    • lanes split definition added to lane definitions (!!! undescribed)
    • added error messages when false lanes are defined in connections
  • SIMULATION:
    • c2c wth rerouting
  • sumo-gui:
    • debugged memory leak in polygon visualization
    • removed simple/full geometry options; everything is now drawn using full geometry
    • the names of nodes, additional structures, vehicles, edges, pois may now be shown
  • All: help/config subsystem changed
  • Netz hat sich geändert
  • added the possibility to load a network only
  • lane expansions
  • iodevices reworked partially
  • "Action" removed* was the same as Command
  • changed the Event-interface
    • execute now gets the current simulation time
    • event handlers are non-static
  • .icc-files removed
  • class-documentation added/patched within dfrouter
  • made access to positions in Position2DVector c++ compliant
  • xml-types are now read prior to other formats (other Xml-description afterwards)
  • double projection in XML-import debugged
  • vehicle actors added
  • shape layers added
  • extracted drawing of lane geometries
  • added projection information to the network
  • edge types may now store the edge function
  • removed the unneeded slow lane changer
  • VISUM: lane connections for unsplitted lanes implemented, further refactoring
  • retrieval of microsim ids is now also done using getID() instead of id()
  • complete od2trips rework
  • all structures now return their id via getID()
  • rerouter: patched the distribution usage; added possibility o load predefined routes
  • unifying threads
  • beautifying: output consolidation
  • removal of loops added (undescribed!!!)
  • got rid of the static RONet instance
  • got rid of the cell-to-meter conversions
  • began with the extraction of the car-following-model from MSVehicle
  • began the work on a network editor
  • added consecutive process messages
  • debugged splitting of matrices
  • added the possibility to stretch/change the current phase and consecutive phases
  • made static comboboxes really static
  • VISUM: patching problems on loading split lanes and tls
  • added blinker visualisation and vehicle tracking (unfinished)
  • retrieval-methods have the "get" prependix; EmitControl has no dictionary; MSVehicle is completely scheduled by MSVehicleControl; new lanechanging algorithm
  • tls switches added
  • made the assertion that two consecutive edge geometry points must not be same less aggressive
  • made MSVehicleControl completely responsible for vehicle handling* MSVehicle has no longer a static dictionary
  • dump-begin/dump-end renamed to dump-begins/dump-ends
  • E3 detectors refactored partially
  • added the possibility to make a polygon being filled or not
  • cartesian and geocoordinates are shown; changed the APIs for this
  • error checks for dump-begins/dump-ends added
  • simulation-wide cartesian to geocoordinates conversion added
  • ROUTER: faster access to weight time lines added;
  • removed build number information
  • API for drawing not filled circles
  • first try to make junctions tls-aware
  • changed the way geocoordinates are processed
  • changed vehicle class naming
  • patching junction-internal state simulation
  • added vehicle class support to microsim
  • added vehicle class support to microsim
  • removed deprecated c2c functions, added new made by Danilot Boyom
  • c2c visualisation added (unfinished)
  • added the possibility to copy an artefact's (gl-object's) name to clipboard (windows)
  • removed unneeded id member in MSMoveReminder
  • added an error handling for adding a tls definition for an unknown tls
  • added the option to not emit vehicles from flows using a fix frequency
  • tls tracker now support switches between logics
  • first steps towards car2car-based rerouting
  • variable vehicle type usage

Version 0.9.4#

This release is rather a snapshot. Many things have changed and some will require some further revalidation. There are three major changes/extensions:

1. The TLS-subsystem now allows having more than a single logic for a traffic light. One can describe the switch times and switch between them on the GUI. The user-description on this may be found under Traffic Lights. There is no developer documentation on this, yet. If you are parsing the networks by your own, you will see that traffic lights definitions have changed slightly. Instead of the sgmltag "logicno" a tag named "subkey" is used by now. Also, "inclanes" has been removed.

2. A full support to import networks with positions encoded in geocoordinates. This makes the usage of two further libraries necessary, PROJ.4 and GDAL. The new building process is described here. A description about how to import geocoordinated files (despite of ArcView-files) can be found here.

Together with this extension, the import of ArcView-files has been rechecked and now allows to import networks stored in other schemes than the one NavTeq uses. The new options are described here.

Some further comments on importing ArcView-files are available here. By now, they include only some comments on importing an open-source network of Osnabrück. You can take a look at this here and also download it from here.

3. The developer documentation has been split into several parts. It seems to be unmanageable to write a complete developer documentation. Due to this, we now offer some additional documentation on certain topics. Topics that were previously a part of the developer documentation may be now found within the More Docs section.

There are also some further changes which do not yet show their potentials, but are quite promising:

1. The routing interface has been made abstract. This allows to use routing algorithms in both the simulation as in the routing applications and will hopefully yield implementations of some further routing algorithms - by now Dijkstra and a turning ration algorithm are available.

2. Some first steps towards making SUMO be aware of vehicle types have been done. It is now possible to allow/disallow vehicles by class to use certain lanes. This is now implemented in the netconvert application and within duarouter, but not yet in the simulation itself and due to this not yet documented. But, as you can see, we are working towards making SUMO multi-modal...

The complete list of changes:

  • Multimodality
    • made lanes storing vehicle classes (additional XML-definition for lanes, Router is aware of vehicle classes) (undocumented)
  • Routing Interface
    • Router have been made abstract
  • GUI
    • the Grid now handles networks with negative positions
    • debugging the visualization grid (unfinished)
    • glu is now used to draw polygons in order to allow concave polygons
    • pois may now be added and moved (using shift)
    • Emitter may show their routes
    • added option to change the exaggeration of POIs
  • Simulation
  • netconvert
    • Improved ArcView-import
    • Additional option for importing NavTeq-networks (using ArcView/Elmar/Elmar2): new navteq lane number information may be now only used if not differing too much from the previous !!!
    • ramp-guessing improved: no lanes are appended if there are enough
    • Vision import added (see Importing VISUM-networks)
    • Positions of guessed TLS may now be saved as POIs (undocumented, yet)
    • The edge function can be given (undocumented, yet)
  • jtrrouter
  • All
  • documentation on meta information added

Version 0.9.2#

User-relevant changes

  • GUI
    • version information in gui patched
    • segfaults on loading broken configs patched
    • catching opening a second file using recent files added
    • subwindows are now deleted on (re)loading the simulation
    • some improvements on visualisation (unfinished (GridBuilder))
    • viewport changer debugged
    • problems on loading geometry items patched
    • list of selected items is now cleared on closing/reloading (was buggy before)
    • table editing debugged
    • rerouters are now correctly named
  • Simulation
    • debugging numeric issues in MSVehicle
    • Emitters reworked
  • Netconversion
    • output during netbuilding patched
    • network geometry reworked (unfinished)
    • "speed-in-km" is now called "speed-in-kmh"
    • "type-file" is now called "xml-type-files"
    • removed two files definition for arcview
    • allowed further information to be stored in arcview-files
  • Documentation
    • User docs, netconversion partly updated
    • further work on tls-api-description
  • All
    • copyright information patched

Developer-relevant changes

  • GUI
    • unused addTimeout/removeTimeout-APIs removed
    • debugged building of the gui-application with MSVC7
  • Simulation
    • (MS|GUI)TriggeredEmitter is now (MS|GUI)Emitter
    • TLS-API: MSEdgeContinuations added
    • usage of internal lanes is now optional at building
  • All
    • got rid of the old MSVC memory leak checker
    • several memory leaks removed
    • made checking the geometry for correctness optional on building (CHECK_UNIQUE_POINTS_GEOMETRY)
    • made memory checking optional on building (CHECK_MEMORY_LEAKS)
    • foreign libraries will now be moved to src/foreign

Version 0.9.1#

User-relevant changes

  • GUI
    • bug on not loading junction geometry patched
  • Simulation
    • actuated tls-lights bug patched

Developer-relevant changes

  • GUI
    • unused addTimeout/removeTimeout-APIs removed
  • Simulation
    • renamed NLNetHandler to NLHandler
    • each MSJunction has a reference to the net; net allows retrieval of the tls-logics container (see helpers/NamedObjectCont.h)
    • removed several memory leaks, mainly occurring after broken loading
    • bugs in actuated traffic lights logic patched
  • Router
    • renamed all ROJP*-classes to ROJTR*

Version 0.9.0 (07.10.2005)#

User-relevant changes:

  • GUI
    • Selections
      • Flag icons added to Popup-Menues
      • Shift adds (de)selects the whole street, not only a lane
      • Selection-Editor now saves to *.txt-files
    • Centering of objects has been revalidated
    • Variable Speed Signs
      • Visualisation of vss added
      • Added the possibility to interact with vss'
    • "Reload Simulation" option added
    • Status-Bar message patched
    • Rotation removed (was buggy)
    • Error on closing the gui if parameter tracker are opened patched
    • Value tracker may now be aggregated and are able to save the tracked values
    • POlygon visualisation added
    • Breakpoints added
    • Setting and Saving of additional net weights added (preliminary, subject to improve)
    • Coloring by type and by route added
  • Simulation
    • Reports why the simulation ended if in verbose mode
    • emissions-output error due to a division by zero patched
    • VSS may now control several lanes
  • general
    • Options
      • Errors on default value usage patched
  • Documentation
    • trying to separate XML-code (green) from command line options (red)
  • netconvert
    • --map-output <FILE> builds a mapping that shows which edges have been removed while joining
    • guess-tls - options added
    • extended the FastLane-import by the -l parameter for the number of lanes
    • --explicite-junctions <JUNCTION_NAME_LIST> allows to say which junctions shall be explicitely tls-controlled
    • --explicite-no-junctions <JUNCTION_NAME_LIST> allows to say which junctions shall be explicitely non-tls-controlled
    • --edges-min-speed <SPEED_MS> allows to remove all edges from the input on which a lower speed than <SPEED_MS> is allowed
    • --elmar allows to import NavTech-GDF-files parsed using Elmar Brockfelds parser
    • --tiger allows to import tiger files (preliminary, does not look THAAAAT good for an unknown reason, yet)
  • Router
    • Generation of random route after the first depart fixed
    • Warnings about missing weights are printed only once per edge
    • Supplementary Weights
  • Examples have now a new folder structure

Developer-relevant changes:

  • GUI
    • Selected structures are now in a separate class
    • Additional structures are now displayed using the same "API"
  • Simulation
    • removed the MSNet::dictionary
    • refactored the MSMeanData-output