DocumentCode
1404053
Title
A Comparison of Phase Transitions Produced by PARAMICS, TransModeler, and VISSIM
Author
Lu, Lu ; Yun, Tianlong ; Li, Li ; Su, Yuelong ; Yao, Danya
Author_Institution
Dept. of Autom., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Volume
2
Issue
3
fYear
2010
Firstpage
19
Lastpage
24
Abstract
Increasing efforts are devoted to test and improve the performance of commercial traffic simulation software now. However, most previous approaches emphasized microscopic car-following and lane-changing features but neglect the macroscopic traffic dynamics. In this paper, we compare the traffic flow phase transition behaviors of three popular simulation software: PARAMICS 6.5, TransModeler 2.0 and VISSIM 5.1 on a single yet typical scenario. Our testing re-sults show that their slight differences in microscopic models can be appropriately magnified and intuitively displayed in the phase diagram.
Keywords
traffic engineering computing; PARAMICS 6.5; TransModeler 2.0; VISSIM 5.1; commercial traffic simulation software; macroscopic traffic dynamics; microscopic car following feature; microscopic lane changing feature; traffic flow phase transition; Microscopy; Performance evaluation; Roads; Simulation; Vehicle dynamics;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1939-1390
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MITS.2010.939193
Filename
5668148
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