Anyone who has ever used the Pedestrian or Rail Yard Libraries in AnyLogic knows how powerful they are. Just drag these objects into your design window from the palette and BANG! ZOOM! they bring a lot pre-build capabilities with them. You can have pedestrians running around an architectural layout in practically no time. And they already know how pedestrians behave. No additional coding to teach them they can't walk through walls, etc. And for the last few months you've also had the ability to do this with trains. They're smart trains too; they know how signals work.
Now, as an exclusive for the AnyLogic North America blog, I can tell you that all this coolness is coming to the May release of AnyLogic in its new Road Traffic Library.
And of course it comes with a set of existing vehicles (more can be imported), 3D awesomeness, and the ability to leverage all of AnyLogic's extensive features. Vehicles behave like, well, vehicles. They know what different traffic signs are and how to react to them. Just give your little agents the keys, step back, and watch them drive around (all without impacting your insurance premium.)
Have a particularly detailed or complex bit of logic you need to employ? No worries. Since AnyLogic is a pure Java app you can easily extend or modify your simulation at any point with the behaviours you are interested in. Our designers thought of a lot of things, but not necessarily everything. So with our foundation and your modifications we'll make a great team... with a time-to-complete modeling project that nobody else can touch. (By the way. If you DID come up with some neat code or new requirements by all means tell us! We can highlight you on our web or even include your needs in a future release. I'd tell you about our upcoming Model Sharing website but I really should keep it to one Leak per blog post.)
If you want to keep tabs on this release, or if you are just new to AnyLogic and want to see what I have been talking about, pay a visit to the XJ Technologies website or, if you want to look at a pedestrian model of what I have been describing you can go here and click on any of these examples. They'll all run in your browser without any other software needed.
