Calibrating steady-state traffic stream and car-following models using loop detector data

Transportation Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-168

  Rakha, Hesham ^a   Arafeh, Mazen ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Calibration of traffic simulation software; Car following models; Traffic modeling; Traffic stream models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

AUTOMATED PROCEDURES; CAR FOLLOWING MODELS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE; STEADY STATE TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC MODEL; TRAFFIC SIMULATIONS; TRAFFIC STREAMS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 77952520236     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1090.0297     Document Type: Article

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