Print Email Facebook Twitter Calibrating Car Following Parameters for Snowy Road Conditions in the Microscopic Traffic Simulator VISSIM Title Calibrating Car Following Parameters for Snowy Road Conditions in the Microscopic Traffic Simulator VISSIM Author Asamer, J. Van Zuylen, H.J. Heilmann, B. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport and Planning Date 2013-03-31 Abstract Calibrated simulation models taking into account adverse weather conditions can be used to optimise traffic management strategies, such as speed adaptation and signal timing optimisation. On snowy road conditions, car following behaviour changes because drivers tend to accelerate more slowly, increase their following distance and drive with lower speeds. Such changes results in lower saturation flow rates at intersections. In order to simulate traffic on snowy road conditions in a valid way, the parameters of a simulation have to be calibrated for adverse weather. This paper identifies the parameters of the car following model in the microscopic simulator VISSIM that are sensitive to snowy road conditions and indicates valid parameter subspaces leading to a good match of simulation model output with observed saturation flow rates and start up delays. In combination with green time of a signalised intersection, saturation flow rate is essential for correctly estimating road capacity. Subject road trafficsimulation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:57bbe23e-79bc-4c2d-960d-b01460fc0780 Publisher Institution of Engineering and Technology ISSN 1751-956X Source IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 7 (1), 2013; Authors version Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2013 Institution of Engineering and Technology Files PDF 301349.pdf 200.77 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:57bbe23e-79bc-4c2d-960d-b01460fc0780/datastream/OBJ/view