You might find the following (free) booklet quite informative. "A Primer for Agent-Based Simulation and Modeling in Transportation Applications"

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/advancedresearch/pubs/13054/13054.pdf

I'm sorry, I'm not a simulation expert. But I had used random walk simulation tool. It was very useful to me to analyze Ant walk traffics on my research.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22003-random-walks-in-matlab/content/html/RandomWalks.html

Maybe you can use RePast, its a java based tool for agent simulations. You can check it out.

RePast is quite general purpose, although it might be useful if you want to be completely free to define the environmental model, as well as agents' perception, decision and action model. SUMO is much more focused on traffic. Other very specific tools for traffic simulation to consider are

- MATSim: http://www.matsim.org/

- MAINSIM: http://www.mainsim.de/?lang=en

Multi Agent Transportation Simulator (MATSIM) is very good and is exactly what you want

Thank you All for these suggestions. You have been very helpful

Here is an interesting traffic simulation (Transportation Simulator: FastTrans) from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Perhaps you can get in touch with the people that developed it for more advice (check out their publications related to the simulator to get some contact details ;-)

http://www.lanl.gov/programs/nisac/fasttrans.shtml

I recently stumbled upon another open source tool for traffic flow dynamics: http://www.movsim.org

I hope it helps.

Hi I am also involved in a research involving traffic simulation using ABMS. Have you tried any of the software listed? And which did you find the most useful? I am currently considering Argonne Polaris. Has anyone used it in the past please? https://www.tracc.anl.gov/index.php/polaris

I also suggest you to take a look at MadKit (madkit.net).

Hi!

I had a look on Fastrans and Movsim but they are not ABM-based but microsimulators. 

Take a look on JANUS, GAMA, MATSIM, OPENTRAFFICSIM, from my most preferred one to my less preferred one.

You might find the following (free) booklet quite informative. "A Primer for Agent-Based Simulation and Modeling in Transportation Applications"

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/advancedresearch/pubs/13054/13054.pdf

you can use MASCAT.

What about POLARIS ?

Even though the question is old, the topic is still hot in my opinion.

There are several frameworks that I can name:

Repast Simphony, NetLogo, AirSim (Specially for aerial domain), Janus, MATSIM, Gazebo

Agent based microsimulation model may be deployed by MATSIM and POLARIS