Mobility modelling with empirical pedestrian and vehicular traffic characteristics

Synthetic mobility models can be used to simulated the movement of a traffic unit or a group of traffic units in a telecommunication network. Characteristics of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, such as speed-flow, speed-density and flow density are often neglected in current synthetic mobility models. The analysis, emulation and simulation of telecommunication networks with mobile users using models such as the random walk are therefore inaccurate. This paper presents an in-depth review of pedestrian and vehicular characteristics and classifies them using the concept of Level of Service. This paper highlights parameters that can be used to improve the accuracy of synthetic mobility models. In the case of vehicular traffic the paper also presents street classification which will further improve the realism of synthetic models.