The past few years have seen a rapid evolution in the sophistication of traffic microsimulation models and a consequent major expansion of their use in transportation engineering and planning practice. Researchers and practitioners have employed an extensive array of approaches to calibrate these models and have selected a wide range of parameters to calibrate and a broad range of acceptance criteria. A methodical, top-down approach to model calibration is outlined; it focuses the initial effort on a few key parameters that have the greatest impact on model performance and then proceeds to less critical parameters to finalize the calibration. A three-step calibration/validation process is recommended. First, the model is calibrated for capacity at the key bottlenecks in the system (the capacity calibration step). Second, the model is calibrated for traffic flows at nonbottleneck locations in the system (the route choice calibration step). Finally, the overall model performance is calibrated against field-measured system performance measures such as travel time and delay (the system performance calibration step). This three-step process is illustrated in an example application for a freeway/arterial corridor.


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    Title :

    Guidelines for Calibration of Microsimulation Models: Framework and Applications


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2004-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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