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USE OF MICROSIMULATION IN THE ADAPTATION TO PORTUGAL OF THE HCM 2000 METHODOLOGY FOR BASIC FREEWAY SEGMENTS
- Portugal is one of the European countries with higher spatial and population freeway network coverage. The sharp growth of this network in the last years instigates the use of methods of analysis and the evaluation of their quality of service in terms of the traffic performance, typically performed through internationally accepted methodologies, namely that presented in the Highway Capacity ManualPortugal is one of the European countries with higher spatial and population freeway network coverage. The sharp growth of this network in the last years instigates the use of methods of analysis and the evaluation of their quality of service in terms of the traffic performance, typically performed through internationally accepted methodologies, namely that presented in the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). Lately, the use of microscopic traffic simulation models has been increasingly widespread. These models simulate the individual movement of the vehicles, allowing to perform traffic analysis. The main target of this study was to verify the possibility of using microsimulation as an auxiliary tool in the adaptation of the methodology by HCM 2000 to Portugal. For this purpose, were used the microscopic simulators AIMSUN and VISSIM for the simulation of the traffic circulation in the A5 Portuguese freeway. The results allowed the analysis of the influence of the main geometric and traffic factors involved in the methodology by HCM 2000. In conclusion, the study presents the main advantages and limitations of the microsimulators AIMSUN and VISSIM in modelling the traffic circulation in Portuguese freeways. The main limitation is that these microsimulators are not able to simulate explicitly some of the factors considered in the HCM 2000 methodology, which invalidates their direct use as a tool in the quantification of those effects and, consequently, makes the direct adaptation of this methodology to Portugal impracticable.…
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
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Author: | Joaquim Miguel Macedo, Agostinho Benta, Luis Picado-Santos |
DOI (Cite-Link): | https://doi.org/10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2812Cite-Link |
URN (Cite-Link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170314-28122Cite-Link |
ISSN: | 1611-4086 |
Parent Title (English): | Digital Proceedings, International Conference on the Applications of Computer Science and Mathematics in Architecture and Civil Engineering : July 20 - 22 2015, Bauhaus-University Weimar |
Editor: | Klaus GürlebeckGND, Tom LahmerORCiDGND |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/03/04 |
Date of first Publication: | 2015/08/28 |
Release Date: | 2017/03/14 |
Publishing Institution: | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
Creating Corporation: | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
Institutes and partner institutions: | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / In Zusammenarbeit mit der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
Pagenumber: | 7 |
Tag: | Data, information and knowledge modeling in civil engineering; Function theoretic methods and PDE in engineering sciences; Mathematical methods for (robotics and) computer vision; Numerical modeling in engineering; Optimization in engineering applications |
GND Keyword: | Angewandte Informatik; Angewandte Mathematik; Building Information Modeling; Computerunterstütztes Verfahren |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme |
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik | |
BKL-Classification: | 31 Mathematik / 31.80 Angewandte Mathematik |
56 Bauwesen / 56.03 Methoden im Bauingenieurwesen | |
Collections: | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Internationales Kolloquium über Anwendungen der Informatik und Mathematik in Architektur und Bauwesen, IKM, Weimar / Internationales Kolloquium über Anwendungen der Informatik und Mathematik in Architektur und Bauwesen, IKM, Weimar, 20. 2015 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell (CC BY-NC 4.0) |