Incorporating stochastic road capacity into day-to-day traffic simulation and traveler learning framework: Model development and case study

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2254, 2011, Pages 112-121

  Jia, Anxi ^a   Zhou, Xuesong ^b   Li, Mingxin ^b   Rouphail, Nagui M ^a   Williams, Billy M ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROADS AND STREETS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES; TRAVEL TIME; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE ACTUATED SIGNALS;

CASE-STUDIES; DISCHARGE RATES; FRAMEWORK MODELS; LEARNING FRAMEWORKS; QUEUE DISCHARGES; ROAD CAPACITY; ROUTE CHOICE; STOCHASTIC CAPACITY; STOCHASTICS; TRAFFIC SIMULATIONS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863275292     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2254-12     Document Type: Article

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