Transportation networks: dynamics and simulation.

[摘要] Analyzing the behavior of socio-technical systems - large urban populations interacting under constraints imposed by technical infrastructure - poses many interesting problems. We describe why simulation is an appropriate experimental method for studying these systems, drawing examples from the development and implementation of the Transportation Analysis and Simulation System (TRANSIMS). TRANSIMS is an urban planning tool that combines census data and household surveys with a description of the transportation network to produce estimate of human mobilty. It iteratively evaluates hundreds of thousands of coupled non-linear models to produce a solution to a million-person game.

[发布机构] Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

[学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）

[关键词] Transportation networks;Sociotechnical systems;Urban population;Simulation;Network analysis