Microscopic modeling of traffic signal operations: Comparative evaluation of hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop simulations

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2128, 2009, Pages 143-151

  Stevanovic, Aleksandar ^a   Abdel Rahim, Ahmed ^b   Zlatkovic, Milan ^a   Amin, Enas ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROLLERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRACTION (FRICTION); TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; HARDWARE IN THE LOOPS; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION MODELS; SIGNAL CONTROL; SIGNAL TRANSITION; SIMULATION MODEL; SOFTWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATIONS; TRAFFIC SIGNAL OPERATION; TRANSITION LOGIC;

HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION;

EID: 76149095206     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2128-15     Document Type: Article

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