USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF SYNTHETIC ORIGIN-DESTINATION DATA IN A MACROSCOPIC FREEWAY SIMULATION MODEL

In recent years, the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation and the Texas Transportation Institute have made extensive use of the FREQ simulation programs in evaluating proposed design configurations for freeways in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Relative to other freeway simulation program packages, the FREQ programs offer the following advantages: (1) The programs are relatively simple to use, requiring little knowledge of computers and only a few basic hand calculations; (2) The programs are macroscopic in nature, thus requiring a minimum amount of input data and computer time; (3) The programs are flexible in the sense that they allow the user to input a wide variety of geometric designs and traffic demand patterns.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Stokes, R W
  • Morris, D E
• Publication Date: 1986-4

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 43-47
• Serial:
  • ITE Journal
  • Volume: 56
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
  • ISSN: 0162-8178
  • Serial URL: https://www.ite.org/publications/ite-journal/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer programs; Freeways; Geometric design; Highway design; Highway traffic; Mathematical models; Origin and destination; Traffic simulation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Macro-models
• Old TRIS Terms: Freeway design; Freeway traffic
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00459081
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Information, Incorporated
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1986 12:00AM