Realizing an effective and flexible ITS evaluation strategy through modular and multi-scaled traffic simulation

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 34-42

  Baur, Mathias ^a   Fullerton, Matthew ^a   Busch, Fritz ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

communication modeling; ITS; multi scaling; simulation evaluation; simulation framework; traffic simulation; validation; vtSim

Indexed keywords

ITS; MULTISCALING; SIMULATION EVALUATION; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; TRAFFIC SIMULATION; VALIDATION; VTSIM;

ALGORITHMS; TOOLS; TRANSPORTATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 78650330063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MITS.2010.939206     Document Type: Article

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