Pragmatic overview of surrounding traffic implementation into driving simulator

In the last 30 years, there is visible trend of performing traffic experiments with use of Driving Simulator. As an example of such studies we can name researches focused on driver behavior in various traffic situations where safety and economic concerns significantly limit use of naturalistic driving studies. An inherent part of such experiments is proper design and implementation of experiment scenario, including surrounding traffic. In the following paper, the authors describe and compare the key properties of three most common approaches to the generation of surrounding vehicles for the needs of driving simulator experiments.