Calibrating Vissim to Analyze Delay at Signalized Intersections
The level of service of an intersection is determined principally by control delay. Accordingly, control delay must be reproduced correctly when microscopic traffic simulation is used to evaluate intersections. This study demonstrated how Vissim could be calibrated for that purpose. Vissim models of four signalized intersections for which data had been collected were built. From these data, information that was extracted on headways, time to pass the intersection, and arrival distribution was used for calibration. Calibration of the headways resulted in car-following parameters for these intersections that differed substantially from the Vissim default values. An adjustment in the vehicle arrival distribution to the observed distribution was also necessary to reproduce the measured delay in the simulation.
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Authors:
- Buck, H Sebastian
- Mallig, Nicolai
- Vortisch, Peter
- Publication Date: 2017
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 73–81
- Monograph Title: Highway Capacity and Quality of Service
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Issue Number: 2615
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Calibration; Car following; Headways; Level of service; Microsimulation; Signalized intersections; Time; Traffic delays
- Identifier Terms: VISSIM (Computer model)
- Geographic Terms: Berlin (Germany); Karlsruhe (Germany)
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01630617
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780309442040
- Report/Paper Numbers: 17-03211
- Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 28 2017 5:07PM