Mobility (of people, goods, services) is an urgent bipartisan concern that impacts all humans on this planet. The vitality and well-being of a nation is reliant upon a well-organized transport system and supporting multimodal (e.g., pedestrians, bicycles, cars, trucks, buses, airplanes, trains, trams) infrastructure. For transportation applications ranging from ground vehicles (i.e., both manual and automated), flight vehicles (e.g., conventional aircraft, and automated drones), maritime vessels, and next-generation mechanisms for human mobility, advanced physics-based models and high-fidelity simulation implementations remain essential for ongoing applications in research, training, and education to advance and evolve our “transportation network of tomorrow.”

In this 90-minute Tutorial, an apprentice-level overview of vehicle-based Modeling & Simulation (M&S) will be provided, with a focus on diverse applications in transportation systems. A high-level overview of common modeling methods will be presented with a targeted focus on timely and diverse aspects of human mobility, multimodal transportation, sustainability, diverse vehicle (i.e., land/air/sea) dynamics essentials, as well as the global supply chain and logistics.  The NTSA-endorsed Certified Modeling & Simulation Professional (CMSP) curriculum will be closely adhered to, and this Tutorial will serve as a broad introduction to many core/fundamental M&S topics and techniques (e.g., Physics-based, Stochastic, Monte Carlo, Continuous simulation, Discrete-events, Human behavior, and Multi-resolution models) that are featured on the certification exam.  Numerous modeling methods will be demonstrated by way of practical and media-driven examples and use cases, all of which will be verbally described (for context), mathematically modeled, and demonstrated by way of media-based simulation. 

Note: this Tutorial will constitute the first segment of a “paired event” with a companion Friday PDW: Transportation Systems: An advanced M&S overview for system developers and practitioners

Keywords
AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY (AR/VR), AUTONOMY, BEHAVIOR MODELING, CONCEPTUAL MODELING, DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION, FLIGHT SIMULATION, HUMAN PERFORMANCE, M&S, MIXED REALITY, MODELING, SIMULATIONS, SIMULATORS