Assessment of TexSIM capabilities for analyzing freeway ramp metering /
11-90 and TEXSIM at the ninety-five percent confidence level,
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Civil Engineering". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 67 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 61-63. |