TRB 2004 Annual Meeting CD-ROM Paper revised from original submittal. 2 ABSTRACT Simulation modeling is an increasingly popular and effective tool for analyzing transportation problems that are not amendable to study by other means. For any simulation study, model calibration is a crucial step to obtaining any results from analysis. This paper presents a systematic, multi-stage procedure for th...

Madhu ERRAMPALLI Research Student Department of Civil Engineering Gifu University 1-1, Yanagido, GIFU 501-1193 Japan Tel: +81-58-293-2443 Fax: +81-58-230-1528 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Masashi OKUSHIMA Research Associate Department of Civil Engineering Gifu University 1-1, Yanagido, GIFU 501-1193 Japan Tel: +81-58-293-2443 Fax: +81-58-230-1528 E-mail: okushima@...

The Transportation Research Forum, founded in 1958, is an independent, nonprofit organization of transportation professionals who conduct, use, and benefit from research. Its purpose is to provide an impartial meeting ground for carriers, shippers, government officials, consultants, university researchers, suppliers, and others seeking exchange of information and ideas related to both passenger...

Grinding is a complex material removal process with a large number of parameters influencing each other. In the process, the grinding wheel surface contacts the workpiece at high speed and under high pressure. The complexity of the process lies in the multiple microscopic interaction modes in the wheel-workpiece contact zone, including cutting, plowing, sliding, chip/workpiece friction, chip/bo...

Computer traffic simulation is important for making new traffic-control strategies. Microscopic traffic simulators can model traffic flow in a realistic manner and are ideal for agent-based vehicle control. In this paper we describe a model of a reactive agent that is used to control a simulated vehicle. The agent is capable of tactical-level driving and has different driving styles. To ensure ...

The SUMO application suite [1, 2] provides tools for the Simulation Of Urban MObility. It consists of a microscopic simulator for multimodal road traffic and a host of applications for preparing simulation input data (network import and modification, traffic import, routing) and for working with simulation outputs. The microscopic driving dynamics of road vehicles are determined by the interpla...