Microscopic Calibration and Validation of Car-Following Models – A Systematic Approach

By Martin Treiber, Arne Kesting. 2013

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Abstract Calibration and validation techniques are crucial in assessing the descriptive and predictive power of car-following models and their suitability for analyzing traffic flow. Using real and generated floating-car and trajectory data, we systematically investigate following aspects: Data requirements and preparation, conceptional approach including local maximum-likelihood and global LSE calibration with several objective functions, influence of the data sampling rate and measuring errors, the effect of data smoothing on the calibration result, and model performance in terms of fitting quality, robustness, parameter orthogonality, completeness and plausible parameter values.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Control and Systems Engineering, Transportation

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