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Through a case study, this paper demonstrates the approach of using microsimulation tools in supporting urban infrastructure planning decisions. The study shows that the approach has great advantages over the current decision making support mechanism: it has large flexibility, it is technically sound, it can be done very quickly, and its powerful visualization capability can significantly reduce the communication gap between technical people and decision makers. While it lacks field observations during infrastructures’ planning stage, microsimulation is usually able to pick up the performance differences for various alternative plans by using some default or assumed parameters and input data based on engineering judgment or practice manual assumptions. In the case study, using the simulation result, the authorities were quickly convinced to adopt a better alternative. It turned out that the approach is quite effective and worth some attention.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFB10 Geometric Design.

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13-3672

English

15p

2013

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Case studies; Decision making; Decision support systems; Infrastructure; Microsimulation; Transportation planning

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-3672

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 5 2013 12:43PM