VISSIM Microscopic Traffic Simulation Model Calibration and Validation Using Multiple Performance Measures

In order to achieve more reliable evaluation results in the assessment of various traffic operations and management strategies, the microscopic traffic simulation model used in the analysis should be well calibrated and validated. As a previously proposed procedure often produced deficiencies under multiple performance measures, this paper presents an enhanced procedure that can accommodate multiple performance measures in the calibration and validation procedure, and the case study results of the proposed enhanced procedure on the four signalized intersections in Charlottesville, Virginia. The results showed that the proposed multiple performance measures based procedure significantly improved the reliability of the calibration over the previous procedure.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Park, B Brian
  • Won, Jongsun
• Conference:
  • 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America's 2008 Annual Meeting
  • Location: New York NY, United States
  • Date: 2008-11-16 to 2008-11-20
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Highway operations; Microscopic traffic flow; Performance measurement; Signalized intersections; Traffic simulation; Validation
• Identifier Terms: VISSIM (Computer model)
• Geographic Terms: Charlottesville (Virginia)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01146291
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 15 2009 3:02PM