Using Java to Create Simulations

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Hi,

I am in my final year of Computer Science and basically I am making a simulation about traffic priority lights for emergency services for my final year project.
The simulation will need to show an road, primarily an intersection were cars are driving along and responding to traffic lights (stop when red, go when green), they will also interact with other cars to avoid collisions and emergency vehicles will automatically turn traffic lights to green when they are nearby, the traffic lights will also interact with other traffic lights to make sure they are not conflicting.

Can someone recommend any good simulation tools or software for Java (or even C, C++) that would help aid me in designing this, I cannot imagine JCreator or Textpad being any help as its merely used to create source codes.

Thanks
 
If you're feeling brave, you could get up to speed on Clojure (language) and use its unique strengths to get thread-happy and do a fully concurrent simulation of all your entities.

(I was reminded of this video presentation showing an approach to making 2d "simulation" of a bunch of ants: http://blip.tv/file/812787)
 
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