[Seminar] Estimating and Forecasting Transportation Resiliency and Reliability Metrics using Simulation
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Monday, November 18, 2019 at 10:15am to 11:15am
EC - Engineering Center, EC 2300
10555 W Flagler ST, Engineering Center, Miami, Florida 33174
In recent years, transportation engineers have begun to utilize traffic simulation models to estimate and forecast transportation operational metrics related to resiliency, sustainability, and reliability. For example, the Highway Capacity Manual, Sixth Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis (HCM-6) has recently adopted 1) passenger car estimation methods that are based on the microsimulation model VISSIM, and 2) urban arterial reliability estimation methods that are based on a Monte Carlos simulation technique. The advantage to simulation approaches is that the metrics, which may be based on central tendency (e.g. mean, median), dispersion (variance, percentile), or even a combination of other metrics (e.g. reliability index), may be easily calculated and/or estimated. For this reason, the number of metrics developed and used has continued to increase. However, it is an open research question on when and where these simulation approaches are appropriate to use. This talk will discuss a number of issues related to using simulation for estimating transportation metrics with a focus on model assumptions and model calibration. Specific examples from real-world test beds will be provided. Lastly, the talk will provide an overview of lessons learned and areas of future research.
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