The principles of calibrating traffic microsimulation models

Transportation

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 347-362

  Hollander, Yaron ^a   Liu, Ronghui ^b  

^a Steer Davies Gleave   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Microsimulation; Traffic models

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

TRAFFIC MICROSIMULATION MODELS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 42449149512     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-007-9156-2     Document Type: Article

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