Systems and methods for, inter alia, geographically based analyses of
traffic being carried over a wide scale traffic network. The systems
integrate geographical information systems (GIS) with traffic simulation
processes to allow a user to analyze traffic patterns and loads at
specific geographic locations of regions. Additionally, these systems
allow for traffic analysis over a wide scale traffic network that may
encompass the traffic network that exists within an geographic region and
can include, as examples, the traffic networks that span across a city,
that interconnect cities, that interconnect states and that run across
multiple states. To this end, the systems include traffic simulators that
can adaptively or controllably select between multiple traffic simulation
models for simulating traffic across different segments of the traffic
network. The different models provide varying levels of granularity for
measurements of geographical location of a vehicle traveling over the
traffic network.