Development and calibration of a large-scale microscopic traffic simulation model

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1876, 2004, Pages 121-131

  Jha, Mithilesh ^a   Gopalan, Ganesh ^a   Garms, Adam ^b   Mahanti, Bhanu P ^c   Toledo, Tomer ^c   Ben Akiva, Moshe E ^d  

^a Jacobs Civil Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Des Moines Area Metropol Org   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; URBAN PLANNING;

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT); INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS); METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION (MPO); TRAFFIC SIMULATION MODEL;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 15544369777     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1876-13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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