The Federal Highway Administration FHWA and the Center for Microcomputers in Transportation McTrans of the University of Florida, co-sponsored a workshop during the week of December 11-16, 1994 in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. A total of fifty five traffic/transportation researchers, traffic model developers, users of traffic models, and administrators of research programs on traffic models participated in the `Workshop on Traffic Models in Support of Intelligent Vehicle-Highways Systems IVHS'. The purpose of this workshop was to bring together designers, developers, and end users of the models and facilitate communications among these groups. The goal was to increase understanding of the models and what is needed to make them more useful and used in support of traffic related activities. This report summarizes the results of that meeting and is intended to provide recommendations for future work to increase the usability of the models. Section 2.0 describes procedures followed during the meeting. Section 3.0 provides a brief background into models and simulations. Section 4.0 and 5.0 describes the results of two working group levels. Finally, Section 6.0 summarizes the overall conclusions developed during this workshop. A section containing attachments follows Section 6.0.
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