Calibration of CORSIM platoon dispersion model for evaluation of ITS projects.

Author(s)
Abbas, M. & Bullock, D.
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Abstract

Although CORSIM is widely used for analyzing intelligent transportation systems (ITS) projects involving traffic signal systems, very little literature can be found regarding the calibration of its platoon dispersion model. This paper shows a systematic approach to compute the speed decile distribution used by CORSIM to simulate platoon dispersion. A comparison of CORSIM simulation with the calibrated model for one of the sites studied in Indiana (US31) showed a significant reduction of 15% in travel time along the corridor versus simulation with the default parameters. These results show the importance of calibrating platoon dispersion when evaluating ITS projects using CORSIM simulation.

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C 36545 (In: C 26095 CD-ROM) /71 /73 / ITRD E833995
Source

In: ITS - Transforming the future : proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS, Sydney, Australia, 30 September - 4 October 2001, 8 p.

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