J. Barceló and J.Casas
International Symposium on Transport Simulation,
Yokohama, August, 2002

International Symposium Proceedings on Transport Simulation, Yokohama 2002. Ed. Kluwer.

ABSTRACT

The deployment of ITS must be assisted by suitable tools to conduct the feasibility studies required for testing the designs and evaluating the expected impacts. Microscopic traffic simulation has proven to be the suitable methodological approach to achieve these goals. This paper discuses some of the most critical aspects of the dynamic simulation of road networks, namely the heuristic dynamic assignment, the implied route choice models, and the validation methodology, a key issue to determine the degree of validity and significance of the simulation results. The paper is structured in two parts, the first provides an overview on how the main features of microscopic simulation have been implemented in AIMSUN, and the second is devoted to discus in detail the heuristic dynamic assignment.

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