A microscopic traffic simulator for evaluation of dynamic traffic management systems

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 4, Issue 3 PART C, 1996, Pages 113-129

  Yang, Qi ^a   Koutsopoulos, Haris N ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE INFORMATION; DYNAMIC SYSTEM; ROUTE CHOICE MODEL; SIMULATION MODEL; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; TRAFFIC SIGNS; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATOR; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; TRAFFIC NETWORK;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 0030320108     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-090X(96)00006-X     Document Type: Article

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