... Rickert¹

Current affiliation: sd&m AG, Troisdorf, Germany; email: marcus.rickert@topmail.de

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... Nagel²

Corresponding author. Current affiliation: Swiss Federal Institut of Technology (ETH), Dept. of Computer Science; postal: ETH Zentrum/D-INFK, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland; email: nagel@inf.ethz.ch

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... area.³

Discrepancies of these numbers between different publications are often caused by the fact that TRANSIMS uses a bi-directional street representation, whereas the number of uni-directional links is more useful for theoretical considerations. Many streets do not have two directions, so that one number is not twice the other.

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... real-time⁴

Running several times faster than real-time means that several simulation seconds can be computed in one wall-clock second.

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