POLARIS: Agent-based modeling framework development and implementation for integrated travel demand and network and operations simulations

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 101-116

  Auld, Joshua ^a   Hope, Michael ^a   Ley, Hubert ^a   Sokolov, Vadim ^a   Xu, Bo ^a,b   Zhang, Kuilin ^a,c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b A Nokia Company   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based modeling; Agent based modeling; Dynamic traffic assignment; Integration

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ENGINES; INTEGRATION; SIMULATION PLATFORM; STARS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACTIVITY BASED MODELING; AGENT BASED MODELING FRAMEWORKS; AGENT-BASED MODEL; DYNAMIC TRAFFIC ASSIGNMENTS; EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE; OPERATIONS SIMULATION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTERS; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELING; SOFTWARE; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 84960810266     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2015.07.017     Document Type: Article

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