Assessment of the suitability of microsimulation as a tool for the evaluation of macroscopically optimized traffic signal timings

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 59-67

  Stevanovic, Aleksandar Z ^a   Martin, Peter T ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessments; Optimization; Simulation; Traffic delay; Traffic signals

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERSECTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

MICROSIMULATION; TRAFFIC DELAY; TRAFFIC SIGNAL TIMINGS;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNALING; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 38349099229     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2008)134:2(59)     Document Type: Article

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