- Agent: Autonomous entity choosing and performing one (and only one) travel alternative for
each simulated day.
- Alternative: See travel alternative.
- Car: Denote a commonly used vehicle type, or a specific vehicle instance of this
vehicle type.
- Destination: Ending node of a trip.
- Edge: Segment of the road-network graph representing a road.
- Intersection: Point where multiple roads cross / intersect. Represented by a node on
the road-network graph.
- Link: See road or edge.
- Mode: Mean / manner of performing a trip (e.g., car, public transit, walking).
- Node: Point at the intersection of multiple edges on the road-network graph.
- Origin: Starting node of a trip.
- Road: Segment of the road network that is used by vehicles to move around.
- Road network: Infrastructures that can be used by vehicles to perform road trips. It
is defined as a graph of nodes and edges.
- Road trip: Trip to go from an origin to a destination using a vehicle
traveling on the road network.
- Route: Sequence of edges, or equivalently roads, representing the trip made by a
vehicle on the road network to connect an origin to a destination.
- Travel alternative: Sequence of trips to be performed by an agent. The sequence can be
empty if the agent is not traveling.
- Trip: Act of traveling from one place to another. See road trip and virtual trip.
- Vehicle: Object, such as a car, that can move / travel on a road network.
- Vehicle type: Definition of the characteristics shared by multiple vehicles.
- Virtual trip: Trip with an exogenous travel time (i.e., a travel time independent from the
choices of the other agents).