Assessment of TexSIM capabilities for analyzing freeway ramp metering /

11-90 and TEXSIM at the ninety-five percent confidence level,

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neerudu, Venugopal R.
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
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Summary:11-90 and TEXSIM at the ninety-five percent confidence level,
also recommended that further research be carried out to
areas and there is less space to increase freeway capacity by
arriving at efficient and effective freeway ramp control
as PASSER 11-90, PASSER 111-90, NETSIM and FRESIM. This
As traffic volumes continue to increase in urban and suburban
assessed for its simulation capabilities. The purposes of
by FRESIM showed that TEXSIM works better for freeway
calibrated and compared to other field verified models such
compare closely to the HAM delay curve The study also
compares well against PASSER 11-90 and NETSIM. Although a
concluded that dual-lane metering provides various advantages
control were used in the comparisons. A series of scenarios
control.
covering a range of traffic volumes and operational features
developed at Texas A&M University, called TEXSIM, will be
difference between TEXSIM and NETSIM at the ninety-five
facilities such as an isolated intersection, a diamond
improved using other means by adopting new control
indicate that for pretimed isolated intersections, TEXSIM
input parameters. It was also observed that for simple clock
interchange and a freeway segment with and without ramp
lack of suitable field data, the TEXSIM model was first
means of lane additions, freeway traffic operations must be
one another. The comparison of speed-flow-density
over traditional single-lane metering including more ramp
percent confidence level. The results also showed that all
queue dynamics, stop-and-go characteristics at a traffic
reducing the queue spill-back on the frontage roads. It was
relationship curves produced by TEXSIM with those generated
same hypothesis was not rejected for the data set having only
signal, lane changing capabilities, etc. Several traffic
simulation due to its consistent results with respect to the
simulation with various ramp metering strategies. Due to
statistical analysis showed that there is no significant
statistically significant difference was found between PASSER
storage capacity, reduction of queue lengths, etc., thereby
strategies, a new traffic simulation model that is being
strategies. Since freeway simulation plays a vital role in
study various ramp metering strategies using an actuated ramp
testing would assess the robustness of the model for its
the simulation results were observed to be comparable. The
this study were to calibrate the TEXSIM model for various
three programs (PASSER 11-90, NETSIM and TEXSIM) are close to
through movement delays. For diamond interchanges, the
time ramp metering, the delay curve of TEXSIM is very close
to that of FRESIM and the delay curves of TEXSIM and FRESIM
traffic facilities and to assess its capabilities of freeway
were tested in the simulations. The simulation results
Item Description:"Major subject: Civil Engineering".
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Physical Description:xii, 67 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references: pages 61-63.