Comparative Study of VISSIM and SIDRA on Signalized Intersection

With the growing volume of traffic, intersection jam happens constantly. An effective way to solve the problem is to seek appropriate control mechanisms with the help of traffic simulation software. Different simulation softwares come out with different evaluation results. This paper focuses on two simulation software: VISSIM and SIDRA. Based on the real world traffic data takes from the West Wenhua Road and Changchun Road of Xianyang City, their features and evaluation results of signalized intersections have been analyzed from the perspective of operation simplicity and the output error. Results show that SIDRA's operation is easier while VISSIM's output is more accurate. This study can provide references for simulation software selection.