Journal
OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 327-336Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12351-014-0146-9
Keywords
Traffic flow; Calibration; Simulation; Validation; Optimization algorithms
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- European Union (European Social Fund-ESF)
- Operational Program Education and Lifelong Learning of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)-Research Funded Project: ARCHIMEDES III
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The calibration of a macroscopic traffic flow model aims at enabling the model to reproduce, as accurately as possible, the real traffic conditions on a motorway network. Essentially, this procedure targets the best value for the parameter vector of the model and this can be achieved using appropriate optimization algorithms. The parameter calibration problem is formulated as a nonlinear, non-convex, least-squares optimization problem, which is known to attain multiple local minima; for this reason gradient-based solution algorithms are not considered to be an option. The methodologies that are more appropriate for application to this problem are mainly some meta-heuristic algorithms which use direct search approaches that allow them to avoid bad local minima. This paper presents an overview of the most suitable nonlinear programming methods for the calibration procedure of macroscopic traffic flow models. Furthermore, an application example, where two well-known macroscopic traffic flow models are evaluated through the calibration procedure, is presented.
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