Transportation Statistics and Microsimulation

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Microsimulation

15.1 INTRODUCTION

In recent years trac microsimulation packages have become an important

modeling tool for various aspects of transportation planning, design, and

operations. A study in 1997 identied over y separate commercially

available trac microsimulation packages (Algers et al., 1997), and there

is no doubt this list has grown substantially since then. Because trac

microsimulation models are becoming more widely used in a variety of

transportation applications, it is important for transportation profession-

als to understand the concepts behind these models and analyze their out-

put statistically.

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