Survey of Three-Dimension Traffic Animation

Recently, as the development of virtual reality techniques, traffic animation turns to be one of hotspots in computer graphics. This paper provides a survey of the methods in three-dimension traffic animations. First, we present a structured review of methods of road networks, which are the carriers of vehicles. Second, we describe vehicle movement simulations from seven perspectives, including one-dimension car-following method, continuum method, mesoscopic method, hybrid method, path-planning method, rule-based method and data-driven method. We detail their principles, advantages and drawbacks. Finally, we point out some open research areas and possible future directions. © 2017, Beijing China Science Journal Publishing Co. Ltd. All right reserved.