Toward Benchmarking of Microscopic Traffic Flow Models

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1852, 2003, Pages 124-129

  Brockfeld, Elmar ^a   Kühne, Reinhart D ^a   Skabardonis, Alexander ^b   Wagner, Peter ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

COMPUTER IMPLEMENTATION; DATA SETS; JACOBI MATRIX; TRAFFIC FLOW MODELS;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 2142639481     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1852-16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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