A comparison of phase transitions produced by PARAMICS, TransModeler, and VISSIM

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 19-24

  Lu, Lu ^a   Yun, Tianlong ^a   Li, Li ^a   Su, Yuelong ^a   Yao, Danya ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

phase transition; simulation; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

CAR-FOLLOWING; COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; PARAMICS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; TRAFFIC DYNAMICS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRANSITION BEHAVIOR;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FLOW SIMULATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 78650352694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MITS.2010.939193     Document Type: Article

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