Migration of HLA into Civil Domains: Solutions and Prototypes for Transportation Applications

Abstract

The United States Department of Defense's (DoD) High Level Architecture for Modeling and Simulation (HLA) is a mandatory stan dard for military simulations. The situation in the civil simulation community is differ ent : simulator interoperability is desirable and even required, but there is no driving force to mandate the use of a certain standard. This article addresses the problems that a simulator interoperability standard in the civil world faces and discusses how HLA can possibly become the standard that is needed. Several solutions for connecting civil simula tion tools using HLA are introduced and some prototypical applications focusing on the area of transportation are demonstrated.

Keywords

HLA civil application dis crete event simulation interoperability transportation

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