• SHOKIA BASHIR
• Er. Ashish Kumar
• Sandeep Singla

Study of the basic traffic flow characteristics and comprehensive understanding of vehicular interaction are the pre-requisites for highway capacity and level of service analyses and formulation of effective traffic regulation and control measures. This is better done by modeling the system, which will enable the study of the influencing factors over a wide range. Computer simulation has emerged as an effective technique for modeling traffic flow due to its capability to account for the randomness related to traffic. This thesis is concerned with application of a simulation model of heterogeneous traffic flow, named MATLAB, to study the relationships between traffic flow variables such as traffic volume and speed. Further, the model is also applied to quantify the vehicular interaction in terms of Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) or Passenger Car Unit (PCU), taking a stretch of an intercity road in India as the case for the study. The results of the study, provides an insight into the complexity of the vehicular interaction in heterogeneous traffic. Simulation models may also be classified as being static or dynamic, deterministic or stochastic, and discrete or continuous. A simulation model, which does not require any random values as input, is generally called deterministic, whereas a stochastic simulation model has one or more random variables as inputs. Random inputs lead to random outputs and these can only be considered as estimates of the true characteristics of the system being modeled. Discrete and continuous models are defined in an analogous manner. The choice of whether to use a discrete or continuous simulation model is a function of the characteristics of the system and the objectives of the study. For this study, a dynamic stochastic type discrete event simulation is adopted in which the aspects of interest are analyzed numerically with the aid of a computer program.

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"Study Of Traffic Flow Chariacteristics On Intercity Highways Using Computer Simulation", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.66-73, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906D63.pdf

"Study Of Traffic Flow Chariacteristics On Intercity Highways Using Computer Simulation", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp66-73, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906D63.pdf