  This report presents a simulation environment for pre-deployment testing of
the autonomous shuttles that will operate in the Linden Residential Area. An
autonomous shuttle deployment was already successfully launched and operated in
the city of Columbus and ended recently. This report focuses on the second
autonomous shuttle deployment planned to start in December, 2019, using a route
that will help to solve first-mile / last-mile mobility challenges in the
Linden neighborhood of Columbus by providing free rides between St. Stephens
Community House, Douglas Community Recreation Center, Rosewind Resident Council
and Linden Transit Center. This document presents simulation testing
environments in two open source simulators and a commercial simulator for this
residential area route and how they can be used for model-in-the-loop and
hardware-in-the-loop simulation testing of autonomous shuttle operation before
the actual deployment.
