[sumo-user] Inductive Loop Detector

[Felix B. <fb...@lt...>]

I need a new detector that behaves like a physical twin loop detector.
This detector should be able to classify the vehicles according to
german "TLS (Technische Lieferbedingungen für Streckenstationen)". The
data acquired by the detector should be sent via IP/UDP to some
configurable machine instead of being logged to a file. That would
allow me to observe an application working with the data it receives from
the detector while observing the 'real' traffic on sumo's GUI.

Provided that I find the time and understand the relevant sections of
sumo's source code I would write such detector. But before I even
start I do have a few questions?

1. At sumo.sourceforge.net I found the following statement describing
   the sumo-devel list: "This list was meant to be used by developers
   to discuss next steps. As almost everyone is working for himself,
   this list is almost completely unused."
   If there is anybody enhancing sumo, will those folks follow the
   sumo-user (this) list instead of the sumo-devel list?
2. If "everybody is working for himself" how could I contribute my
   detector to all other people using sumo? Will there be somebody I could
   send patches to? Will my detector eventually make it into sumo?
3. If I need additional libraries such as http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/,
   is there anything besides GPL and portability I should consider?

Last but not least, please let me know if there is already some detector
like "mine"; at least it should be able to send it's data to some foreign
machine by means of TCP/IP.

many thanks, Felix