Service-Oriented Architecture for Automatic Evaluation of Urban Logistical Concepts

With the rapidly increasing availability of logistical concepts new tools are required to provide accurate estimations of concept effectiveness to urban planners.In this paper we describe a service-oriented architecture providing automated concept evaluation through agent-based traffic simulation, combining general traffic models with specialized logistical models into singular simulations.Key focus of the paper is the integration architecture utilized to combine the different tools from a previously developed manual workflow.The architecture is designed to incorporate multiple different tools into a combined workflow, providing non-domain users with a highly specialized tool.