Abstract:The typical problems of traditional methods for urban arterial coordinate control such as input hypothesis,model establishment and Performance Indicators calculation were pointed out.An urban arterial coordinate control Simulation Optimization (SO) model and techniques were put forward,including the SO integrated framework,an improved genetic algorithm (IGA) based on simulated annealing extending for offset optimization,and the SO platform using the Visual Basic programming language and the component object model (COM) interface based on micro simulation model VISSIM.A threeintersections VISSIM test bed was developed to evaluate the performance of the proposed SObased arterial coordinate control in Huangxing road with the average delay as the optimization indicator.The results show that the changing trend of the fuel consumption,stop times and emission (NOx,CO) curve is similar to the delay and there are no statistics differences for the offset optimization values under different optimization indicators.