Behavioral Calibration and Analysis of a Large-Scale Travel Microsimulation

Networks and Spatial Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 481-502

  Flötteröd, Gunnar ^a   Chen, Yu ^b   Nagel, Kai ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disaggregate demand calibration; Dynamic traffic assignment; Multi agent simulation; Real world application

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; DEPARTURE TIME CHOICE; DYNAMIC TRAFFIC ASSIGNMENTS; MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; REAL-WORLD; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; TRANSPORT SIMULATION;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84871135632     PISSN: 1566113X     EISSN: 15729427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11067-011-9164-9     Document Type: Article

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