Traffic Flow Modeling of Large-Scale Motorway Networks Using the Macroscopic Modeling Tool METANET

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 282-292

  Kotsialos, Apostolos ^a   Papageorgiou, Markos ^a,d,e,f,g,h   Diakaki, Christina ^a   Pavlis, Yannis ^b,i   Middelham, Frans ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Ministry of Transport Public Works and Water Management Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^d Dorsch Consult   (Germany)

^e Inst Natl Rech sur les T   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Motorway networks; Simulation; Traffic flow; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348002067     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2002.806804     Document Type: Article

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