Development and Performance Evaluation of an ITS-Ready Microscopic Traffic Model for Irvine, California

The research in this paper presents the detailed development and on-line evaluation of a microscopic traffic flow model for the city of Irvine in Southern California. This effort is the first stage of evaluating micro-simulators in terms of their ability to model and analyze Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) under faster-than-real-time conditions. We utilize “Paramics,” a particularly promising ITS-capable advanced traffic flow simulator and visualization tool, as one of an array of newly emerging ITS-capable simulation tools and we apply it to the Irvine network as part of a staged effort to model the much larger Southern California network. The driver and vehicle models