Development and evaluation of a procedure for the calibration of simulation models

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1934, 2005, Pages 208-217

  Park, Byungkyu ^a   Qi, Hongtu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b BMI SG   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL CALIBRATION; VERKEHR IN STAEDTEN SIMULATION (VISSIM).;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 33645782733     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0361198105193400122     Document Type: Article

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