A comparative study of weaving sections in TRANSIMS and Highway Capacity Manual

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dc.contributor.authorJillella, Srinivasen
dc.contributor.committeechairHobeika, Antoine G.en
dc.contributor.committeememberCollura, Johnen
dc.contributor.committeememberRakha, Hesham A.en
dc.contributor.departmentCivil Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:41:03Zen
dc.date.adate2001-07-06en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:41:03Zen
dc.date.issued2001-06-28en
dc.date.rdate2002-07-06en
dc.date.sdate2001-07-05en
dc.description.abstractWeaving is defined as the crossing of two or more traffic streams traveling in the same direction along a significant length of the highway without the aid of traffic control devices. The traditional methods used for the design and operational analysis of a highway is the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). These traditional methods in the manual use road geometry and traffic volumes as input and provide an estimate of the speed as an output. TRANSIMS is a new computer simulation package in transportation that can be used as an analysis as well as a planning tool. The Microsimulator in TRANSIMS deals with the actual simulation of traffic on roadways. The intent of this research is to evaluate TRANSIMS Microsimulator and compare it with the traditional Highway Capacity Manual in modeling the weaving sections on a freeway and make recommendations. This research will also compare the modeling strategy and provide analysis of the output.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-07052001-100731en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07052001-100731/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33888en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartThesis_Srinivas_Jillella.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectHCMen
dc.subjectWeaving Sectionsen
dc.subjectTRANSIMSen
dc.titleA comparative study of weaving sections in TRANSIMS and Highway Capacity Manualen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineCivil Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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