Transportation Network Modeling and Calibration

<b>This book introduces transportation engineering students and junior engineers to the concept of transportation network modeling network coding model calibration and validation and model evaluation.</b><p>Transportation scientists employ modeling and simulation techniques to capture the complexities of transportation systems and develop and assess solutions to alleviate existing and future transportation-related problems. This book introduces transportation engineering students and junior engineers to the concept of transportation network modeling network coding model calibration and validation and model evaluation.</p><p>Travel demand models are sensitive to demographic changes and can explain and forecast how a new transportation supply system leads to a new transportation demand pattern. This book also describes how demand models evolved from trip-based to the newer generation of activity-based and agent-based to overcome some of the shortcomings of the four-step approach and improve models' prediction power.</p>