Required traffic micro-simulation runs for reliable multivariate performance estimates

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 296-314

  Truong, Long T ^a   Sarvi, Majid ^a   Currie, Graham ^a   Garoni, Timothy M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

replication; run; simulation; traffic micro simulation

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

BONFERRONI INEQUALITIES; MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE; REPLICATION; RUN; SIMULATION; SIMULTANEOUS CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; STATISTICAL ACCURACY; TRAFFIC MICRO SIMULATIONS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84931864366     PISSN: 01976729     EISSN: 20423195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/atr.1319     Document Type: Article

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