How Many Simulation Runs are Required to Achieve Statistically Confident Results: A Case Study of Simulation-Based Surrogate Safety Measures

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn 2015-October, Issue , 2015, Pages 274-278

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

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Replication; Run; Simulation; Simulation accuracy; Traffic micro simulation

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION;

REPLICATION; RUN; SIMULATION; SIMULATION ACCURACY; TRAFFIC MICRO SIMULATIONS;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84950259261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2015.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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