Joint calibration of a microscope traffic simulator and estimation of origin-destination flows

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.

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Main Author: Darda, Deepak, 1977-
Other Authors: Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, Mithilesh K. Jha and Haris N. Koustopoulos.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17527
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spelling mit-1721.1/175272019-04-09T16:01:17Z Joint calibration of a microscope traffic simulator and estimation of origin-destination flows Darda, Deepak, 1977- Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, Mithilesh K. Jha and Haris N. Koustopoulos. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Civil and Environmental Engineering. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-105). Microscopic Traffic simulators can be effectively used to analyze various transportation strategies (especially ITS related). However, microscopic traffic simulators need to be calibrated in order to yield meaningful results. Calibration is the process of adjusting the model parameters to closely replicate the observed behavior. In this thesis, a module for joint calibration of a microscopic traffic simulator along with estimation of Origin- Destination (OD) flows has been developed. The developed framework takes into account the interactions between the various model parameters and the OD flows. An optimization-based framework has been proposed for the joint calibration of model parameters and estimation of dynamic OD flows. A systematic search approach based on the Box algorithm is adopted for calibration of the parameters. Depending on the problem size, a sequential or a simultaneous OD estimation algorithm is employed. Since the calibration of the parameters depends on the estimated OD flows and vice versa, the proposed framework is iterative. The developed framework has been implemented in MITSIMLab, a microscopic traffic simulation laboratory. Case studies on three networks with varying levels of complexity illustrate the potential of the calibration approach. by Deepak Darda. S.M. 2005-06-02T16:03:23Z 2005-06-02T16:03:23Z 2002 2002 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17527 50571860 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 105 p. 4246343 bytes 4246151 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spellingShingle Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Darda, Deepak, 1977-
Joint calibration of a microscope traffic simulator and estimation of origin-destination flows
title Joint calibration of a microscope traffic simulator and estimation of origin-destination flows
title_full Joint calibration of a microscope traffic simulator and estimation of origin-destination flows
title_fullStr Joint calibration of a microscope traffic simulator and estimation of origin-destination flows
title_full_unstemmed Joint calibration of a microscope traffic simulator and estimation of origin-destination flows
title_short Joint calibration of a microscope traffic simulator and estimation of origin-destination flows
title_sort joint calibration of a microscope traffic simulator and estimation of origin destination flows
topic Civil and Environmental Engineering.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17527
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