Validating the results of a route choice simulator

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 371-387

  Bonsall, Peter ^a   Firmin, Paul ^a   Anderson, Monica ^a   Palmer, Ian ^a   Balmforth, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Data; Route choice; Simulator; Survey; Validation; VMS

Indexed keywords

PLANNING METHOD; ROUTE CHOICE; TRANSPORT PLANNING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; TRAFFIC SIGNS;

ROUTE CHOICE SIMULATORS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE VLADIMIR;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVER SIMULATORS;

EID: 0031283743     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-090X(98)00003-5     Document Type: Article

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