DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC-VEHICLE-MONITORING SIMULATION SYSTEM

The Automatic-Vehicle-Monitoring Simulation System (AVMSS) is described. AVMSS is an interactive bus-route simulation model designed to act as a test bed for the evaluation of automatic-vehicle-monitoring (AVM) strategies and tactics. The system is composed of three component programs: the Traffic Environment Generator (TEG), the Bus Schedule Generator (BSG), and the AVM Simulator (AVMS). The simulation system uses both macroscopic and microscopic simulation techniques. The macroscopic traffic-flow model used in the TEG program is based on the TRANSYT model. Buses are moved in the AVMS by using a microscopic time-scanning technique. The features of each component program are discussed, data requirements and the measures of effectiveness produced are presented, and AVM strategies embedded in the model are described. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Goldblatt, R B
  • Yedlin, M
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 23-26
• Monograph Title: Bus Planning and Operations
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 798
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle monitoring; Buses; Microsimulation; Routes; Simulation; Traffic simulation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Macroscale
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00341792
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309032121
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 22 1981 12:00AM