Analysis, modeling, and simulation offers the major advantage of being able to try out and analyze interventions in a simulated environment before deploying a system. This makes it possible to:
- Assess existing operating conditions
- Identify the most feasible and effective control strategies
- Reveal data and infrastructure gaps that might otherwise go unnoticed
- Identify unexpected challenges
- Significantly reduce project risk
- Quantify benefits and costs
- Provide justification for repairing and upgrading sensing and control elements
- Target infrastructure investments that will have the greatest impact
- Help stakeholders understand and visualize system dynamics at the corridor level
- Provide scenarios and response strategies for systems engineering documents
- Enhance common understanding among stakeholders