Contents

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• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • Motivation and Research Objective
  • Literature Review
    • Advances in Dynamic Traffic Management Systems
    • Evaluation Methods
      • Field tests
      • Simulation based evaluations
    • Traffic Simulation Tools
  • Thesis Outline
• Evaluation Framework
  • Process for Evaluation and Design Refinement
  • Traffic Simulation Laboratory
    • Traffic Flow Simulator
      • Network components
      • Travel demand
      • Driving behavior and vehicle movement
    • Traffic Management Simulator
    • Surveillance System
    • Control and Routing Devices
  • Simulation Output and Measures of Effectiveness
  • System Integration
  • Software Architecture
    • Software Elements
    • Distributed Implementation
    • Graphical User Interface
• Microscopic Traffic Simulator
  • Overall Design
  • Network Representation
    • Nodes:
    • Links:
    • Segments:
    • Lanes:
  • Toll Plazas
  • Traffic Surveillance and Control Devices
    • Surveillance Sensors
    • Traffic Control Devices
  • Incidents
  • Travel Demand
  • Vehicle Characteristics
    • Maximum acceleration rate:
    • Maximum deceleration rate:
    • Normal deceleration rate:
    • Desired speed:
    • Speed distribution across lanes:
    • Target speed:
  • Vehicle Routing
    • Route Choice Model
    • Route Switching Model
    • Properties and Extensions
  • Vehicle Movements
    • Reaction Time
    • Vehicle Loading
    • Acceleration Rate
      • Car following
        • Free flowing regime:
        • Emergency regime:
        • Car-following regime:
      • Merging
      • Event Responding
        • Traffic signals and signs:
        • Incidents:
        • Connection to downstream link:
        • Courtesy yielding:
    • Lane Changing
      • Lane Change Decisions
      • Gap acceptance
      • Nosing and Yielding
        • Probability of nosing:
        • Feasibility of nosing:
  • Simulation Output
    • Sensor Readings
    • Measures of Effectiveness (MOE)
    • Graphical User Interface
      • Traffic network:
      • Traffic sensors:
      • Traffic controls and incidents:
      • Animation of vehicle movements:
  • Validation
• Traffic Management Simulator
  • Framework and Overall Structure of TMS
  • Route Guidance
    • Reactive Route Guidance
    • Predictive Route Guidance
      • Rolling Horizon Model
        • Rolling horizon length
        • Rolling horizon step size
        • Guidance Resolution
        • Computational delay
      • Network State Estimation
      • Network State Prediction
        • Dynamic OD prediction:
        • Traffic prediction:
      • Guidance generation
  • Traffic Control
    • Static Controllers
    • Pretimed Controllers
      • Offset:
      • Timing Table:
    • Traffic Adaptive Controllers
      • Signal records:
      • Phase records:
      • Detector records:
    • Metering Controllers
      • Cycle length:
      • Limiting parameters:
      • Regulators and desired state:
      • Queue detectors:
      • Step size for updating metering rate:
  • Incident Management
    • Response Plan
      • Situation code
      • Device type
      • Affected region
      • Signal/Sign state
    • Incident Detection Time
    • Selection and Activation of Response Plan
• Mesoscopic Traffic Simulator
  • Network Representation
  • Traffic Cells and Traffic Streams
  • Capacity Constraints
  • Traffic Dynamics
    • Speed-Density Model
    • Cell-Following Model
      • Step 1:
      • Step 2:
  • Vehicle Characteristics
  • Vehicle Routing
  • Input and Output
  • Computational Tests and Validation
• Case Study
  • The Network
  • Sensor Data
  • OD Flows
  • Path Generation and Vehicle Routing
    • Specification of Route Choice Model
    • Path Table
    • Historical Link Travel Times
  • Calibration of MITSIM and MesoTS and Validation of MesoTS
  • Value of Real-Time Route Guidance
    • Scenarios
    • Measures of Effectiveness (MOE)
    • Results
  • Computational Performance
    • MITSIM:
    • MesoTS:
    • SIMLAB:
  • Conclusion
• Conclusion
  • Research Contribution
  • Future Work
    • Evaluation of alternative dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) models:
    • Evaluation of various traffic management strategies:
    • Operator training:
    • Laboratory travel behavior studies:
    • Network state estimation:
    • OD estimation and prediction:
    • Capacity translator:
    • Fuel consumption and emissions models:
    • Hybrid simulation:
    • Distributed and parallel simulation:
• References
• Abbreviation
• Calculation of Time-Dependent Shortest Paths
• Simulation Parameters
  • Vehicle Characteristics
  • Driver Behavior
• Random Number Generator
• Statistics for Evaluating Simulation Models
• Examples of Data Files
  • Network Database
  • Time Dependent OD Trip Tables
  • Vehicle Trip Table
  • Vehicle Path Table
  • Incidents
• Acknowledgments