Getting started with SUMO

Basic installation of SUMO + simple verification to test sample working code

Installation instructions:

Installation of SUMO is different for different platforms (Windows, macOS and Linux). It is pretty straightforward, click the SUMO logo below for detailed instructions. Note : Update your operating system before installing SUMO to ensure all dependencies are fulfilled.

Installation instructions for OVGU IKS cluster remote machines

If you want to use SUMO on a remote machine of the OVGU IKS cluster, you might not have the permissions to follow SUMO’s Linux installation instructions.
Instead, you can install SUMO using the Python package manager pip without root permissions.

python3 -m pip install sumo

If further SUMO libraries are required, they can also be installed via pip. See examples for traci and libsumo below.

python3 -m pip install traci

python3 -m pip install libsumo

(Optional) Test and verify SUMO

To test if installed SUMO is working as intended, you can run the scripts in the sumobasesimulation directory.

For creating a simple grid network, run :

python createsimulation.py

You can modify the size of the grid, number of vehicles and number of lanes before running the above script. Once you run this script the configuration files , route files and network files are all created.

To check if the installed SUMO works along with the created simulation run :

python verify.py

In the above script, you can change the following parameter to run it either in GUI mode or command-line mode.

–sumo_cmd_env , values = [sumo,sumo-gui]

SUMO file structure

The most important files in a SUMO simulation are the following. See xml directory for examples.

File	Purpose
grid.net.xml	Network File
grid.rou.xml	Vehicle Route File
grid.sumocfg	Main config file which SUMO will use to run the simulation
route.xml	Route flow definitions