AHB45
Committee on Traffic Flow Theory & Characteristics
Transportation Research Board
National Academy of Sciences
 
     
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Committee Meetings

2013 Activities

91st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
January 2013

  • Committee Meeting Agenda: pdf
  • Chair Letter: pdf
  • Meeting Presentation Materials: pdf
  • Committee Meeting Minutes: pdf

2013 Traffic Flow Theory Committee Summer Meeting with 20th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTT) at the Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, July 17-19. 2013.

  • Summer Meeting Agenda: pdf
  • Summer Meeting Minutes: pdf
  • Summer Meeting Attendance: pdf

2012 Activities

90th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
January 2012

  • Committee Meeting Agenda: pdf
  • Meeting Presentation Materials: pdf
  • NEW! Committee Meeting Minutes: pdf

2012 Traffic Flow Theory Committee Summer Meeting with Highway Capacity Committee, Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 20-23, 2012

  • Summer Meeting Agenda: pdf
  • NEW! Summer Meeting Minutes: pdf
  • Summer Meeting Attendance: pdf

2011 Activities

90th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
January 23-27, 2011

  • Committee Meeting Agenda: pdf
  • Meeting Presentation Materials: pdf
  • Committee Meeting Minutes: pdf

2011 Traffic Flow Theory Committee Summer Meeting, Oakland, CA, USA, July 17, 2011

  • Summer Meeting Agenda: doc
  • Summer Meeting Minutes: doc
  • Summer Meeting Attendance: xls

2010 Activities

89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
January 10-14, 2010

  • Committee Meeting Agenda and Meeting Presentation Materials: pdf
  • Committee Meeting Minutes: pdf

2010 Traffic Flow Theory Committee Summer Meeting, Annecy, France, July 8-10, 2010

  • Summer Meeting Minutes: pdf
  • Transportation Research Part C will publish 7-8 of the best papers in a special edition

2009 Activities

88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
January 11-15, 2009

  • Committee Meeting Agenda: Tuesday January 13, 2009, 1:30-5:30 pm, Marriott Washington B3
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Photos of Chairman Nathan Gartner receiving certificate from TRB and bound TRR volume from committee members (click on thumbnail for larger image):
     

2008 Activities

TRB Traffic Flow Theory Committee Summer Meetting and Symposium on The Fundamental Diagram: 75 years (�Greenshields75� Symposium)
J. Erik Jonsson Center of the National Academy of Sciences, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July 7-9, 2008

87th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
January 13-17, 2008

  • Committee Meeting Agenda: Tuesday January 15, 2008, 1:30-5:00 pm, Marriott Wilson B&C
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2007 Activities
86th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board January, 2007

2006 Activities
85th Annual Meeting of The Transportation Research Board January, 2006

2005 Activities [click here for past activities]
84th Annual Meeting of The Transportation Research Board January, 2005

This year the Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics is sponsoring four paper sessions and two poster sessions; we are co-sponsoring the Sunday Workshop on Traffic Simulation Models, we are co-sponsoring the Doctoral Student Research in Transportation Modeling session, as well as our annual Wednesday morning Committee Meeting [SEE AGENDA] and a Monday evening meeting of the Joint Subcommittee on Traffic Simulation Models. [SEE AGENDA]

For detailed program information, see the TRB Interactive Program.

Paper or Conference Sessions

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Monday, January 10, 2005, 10:15am-12:00pm, Hilton, Monroe West
Experimental Analysis of Car Following Models
Michael Cassidy, University of California, Berkeley, presiding

A Car Following Model for Motorway Traffic (05-2120)
     Jiao Wang, Ronghui Liu, Frank Montgomery, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Experimental Analysis of Car Following Dynamics and Traffic Stability (05-2167)
     Prakash Ranjitkar, Takashi Nakatsuji, Hokkaido University, Japan;  Motoki Asano, Civil Engineering Research Institute of Hokkaido, Japan
Analysis and Comparison of Car-following Models Using Real Traffic Microscopic Data (05-2766)
     Vincenzo Punzo,  Fulvio Simonelli, University of Napoli, Italy
Car-Following Behavior Analysis from Microscopic Trajectory Data (05-1115)
     Saskia Ossen, Serge Hoogendoorn, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
A Non-Stationary Kalman Filter for the Estimation of Accurate Multiple Car-Following Data (05-2760)
     Vincenzo Punzo, Domenico Josto Formisano, Vincenzo Torrieri, University of Napoli, Italy

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005, 7:30pm- 9:30pm, Hilton, Monroe West
Lane Use, Merging and Lane Changing Behavior
Robert Lawrence Bertini, Portland State University, presiding

Variation in Freeway Lane Use Patterns with Volume, Time of Day, and Location (05-0488)
     Mohammad R. Amin, CH2M HILL;  James H. Banks, San Diego State University
Driver Turn-taking Behavior in Congested Freeway Merges (05-0152)
     Michael J. Cassidy, Soyoung Ahn, University of California, Berkeley
Multi-Lane Hybrid Traffic Flow Model: A Theory on the Impacts of Lane-Changing Maneuvers (05-1010)
     Jorge Andres Laval, Carlos Daganzo, University of California, Berkeley
A Lane-changing Model with Explicit Target Lane Choice (05-1377)
     Tomer Toledo, Charisma Choudhury, Moshe Ben-Akiva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vehicle-type and Lane-Specific Free Speed Distributions on Motorways: A Novel Estimation Approach using Censored Observations (05-0680)
     Serge Hoogendoorn, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

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Monday, January 10, 2005, 8:00am- 9:45am, Hilton, Jefferson East
Microscopic Traffic Simulation: Calibration, Validation and Computation Issues
Nathan H. Gartner, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, presiding

Influencing Factors in Microscopic Traffic Simulation (05-2266)
     Emily Sterzin, Tomer Toledo, Moshe Ben-Akiva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Calibration and Validation of Microscopic Traffic Flow Models (05-2152)
     Peter Wagner, German Aerospace Center;  Elmar Brockfeld, DLR Standort Berlin-Adlershof, Germany; Reinhart Kuehne, German Aerospace Center
A Distributed Modeling Framework for Large-Scale Microscopic Traffic Simulation (05-2618)
     Henry Liu, Wenteng Ma, Utah State University; R. Jayakrishnan, University of California, Irvine
Hybrid Mesoscopic-Microscopic Traffic simulation (05-2380)
     Wilco Burghout, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden;  Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Northeastern University; Ingmar Andreasson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Development of Optimal Downsampling Procedures for Microsimulation Modeling of Transportation Networks: A Freeway Case Study (05-0302)
     Sherif Ishak, Yan Zhang, Ciprian Alecsandru, Louisiana State University

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Monday, January 10, 2005, 1:30pm- 3:15pm, Hilton, Georgetown East
Queueing and Bottleneck Analysis in Urban Traffic Facilities
Reinhart Kuehne, German Aerospace Center, presiding

Empirical Analysis of Traffic Sensor Data Surrounding a Bottleneck on a German Autobahn (05-2750)
     Robert Lawrence Bertini, Steve Hansen, Portland State University; Klaus Bogenberger, BMW Group, Germany
Stability of Freeway Bottleneck Flow Phenomena (05-0489)
     K. Selcuk Ogut, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey; James H. Banks, San Diego State University
Modeling Network Flow With and Without Link Interactions: Properties and Implications (05-0504)
     Michael H. Zhang, University of California, Davis; Yu Nie, University of California, Davis
Prediction of Arrival Profiles and Queue Lengths along Signalized Arterials Using a Markov Decision Process (05-2722)
     Nikolaos Geroliminis, Alexander Skabardonis, University of California, Berkeley
Comparison of Shockwave and Queuing Theory Delay Estimates (05-1763)
     Hesham Ahmed Rakha, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Poster Sessions

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 2:30pm- 5:30pm, Hilton, International Center
Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics

First-order Pedestrian Traffic Flow Theory (05-1739)
      Winnie Daamen ,  Serge Hoogendoorn ,  Piet H.L. Bovy , Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
How Shortest Path Algorithms Solve Traffic Dynamics Problems (05-0711)
      Carlos Daganzo ,  Monica Menendez , University of California, Berkeley
First-In-First-Out Properties of a Commodity-based Kinematic Wave Simulation Model (05-2413)
      Wen-Long Jin ,  R. Jayakrishnan , University of California, Irvine
Macroscopic Modeling of Traffic Dispersion: Issues and Proposed Solutions (05-0855)
      Hesham Ahmed Rakha , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Calibration of the TRANSYT Traffic Dispersion Model: Issues and Proposed Solutions (05-0860)
      Hesham Ahmed Rakha , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Developing Multi-Regime Speed-Density Relationships Using Cluster Analysis (05-0559)
      Lu Sun , Catholic University of America
On Stationary Models of Unqueued Traffic and the Number of Freeway Travel Lanes (05-0447)
      Michael J. Cassidy , University of California, Berkeley;   Shadi B. Anani , Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
Time-Series Modeling For Forecasting Vehicular Traffic Flow in Dublin (05-0464)
      Bidisha Ghosh , Biswajit Basu , Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Margaret O'Mahony , Centre for Transportation Research, Ireland
Transformation between Uninterrupted and Interrupted Speed for Urban Road Applications (05-2721)
      Rattaphol Pueboobpaphan ,  Takashi Nakatsuji , Hokkaido University, Japan;   Hironori Suzuki , Japan Automobile Research Institute
Modeling Speed Disturbance Absorption Following State-Control Action-Expected Chains: Integrated Car-Following and Lane-Changing Scenarios (05-1769)
      Ruihua Tao , Maryland Department of Transportation; Heng Wei , University of Cincinnati; Yinhai Wang , University of Washington; Virginia P. Sisiopiku , University of Alabama, Birmingham
The Investigation of Operating Speeds on Tangent Sections of Beijing's Freeways (05-1600)
      Xiao Kuan Yang ,  Yu Long He , Beijing University of Technology, China
Dynamics of Speed Distributions from Microscopic Simulators In Comparison to Kinetic Theory of Traffic Flow (05-2739)
      Riju Lavanya , R. Jayakrishnan ,  Jun-Seok Oh , Western Michigan University
The Estimation of Traffic Flow Parameters from Instrumented Vehicles Counts (05-1045)
      Giuseppe Guido ,  Vittorio Astarita , University of Calabria, Italy; Robert Lawrence Bertini , Portland State University
Experimental Investigation of Spatial Breakdown Evolution on Congested Freeways (05-1415)
      Shy Bassan ,  Ardeshir Faghri , University of Delaware
Startup Delays of Queued Vehicles (05-2598)
      Gary Long , University of Florida
Field Study and Modeling of Vehicles' Merging Behavior from an Acceleration Lane to Expressway Traffic (05-2175)
      Wenquan Li , Southeast University, China; Xiugang Li , Louisiana State University
Short-term Traffic Flow Analysis: Detecting and Identifying Nonstationarity and Nonlinearity (05-0189)
      Eleni Vlahogianni ,  Matthew G. Karlaftis , John Golias , National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Analyzing Traffic Flow Phases (05-0385)
      Jingxin Xia ,   Mei Chen , University of Kentucky

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 2:30pm- 5:30pm, Hilton, International Center
Applications of Traffic Simulation Models

A Versatile Model for Rural Road Traffic Simulation (05-0321)
      Andreas Tapani , Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute
Development and Evaluation of Simulation Model Calibration Procedure (05-1893)
      Byungkyu (Brian) Park ,   Hongtu Qi , University of Virginia
Calibration of Flow-density Relationships in Urban Streets (05-0356)
      Ludovic Leclercq , ENTPE/INRETS, France
On-line Calibration of Traffic Prediction Models (05-2222)
      Constantinos Antoniou , Moshe Ben-Akiva , Haris N. Koutsopoulos , Northeastern University
Calibrating CORSIM Commercial Motor Vehicle Distributions (05-1387)
      Grant G. Schultz , Brigham Young University; Laurence R. Rilett , University of Nebraska, Lincoln
A Calibration and Validation Procedure for Microscopic Simulation Model: A Case Study of SimTraffic for Arterial Streets (05-0274)
      Khaled Shaaban ,  Essam Radwan , University of Central Florida
Paramics Simulation of Periodic Oscillations Caused By Network Geometry (05-2669)
      Wen-Long Jin ,  Yu Zhang , University of California, Irvine
Development and Evaluation of a Prototype Motorist Delay-Awareness System for Canada-U.S. Border Crossings (05-2028)
      Jack Chia-Yu Peng , University of Toronto, Canada
Computing Toll Plaza Hourly Throughput Performance: a Comparison of Two Methods (05-0984)
      Marguerite Lucia Zarrillo , University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; A. Essam Radwan , University of Central Florida

Workshops

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Sunday, January 9, 2005, 1:30pm- 5:00pm, Shoreham, Empire
Application of Dynamic Traffic Assignment to Traffic Operations Planning
Henry C. Lieu, Federal Highway Administration, presiding
Sponsored by Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (AHB45); Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (ADB30)

The TRB Committees on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics and Transportation Network Modeling are cosponsoring this workshop to address recent advances in the development and application of dynamic traffic assignment models in the design, evaluation, and operation of transportation facilities.
Zonal Aggregation and Network Extraction for Subarea Analysis Using a Dynamic Assignment Procedure (P05-0342)
     Hani S. Mahmassani, Xuesong Zhou, Sevgi Erdogan, University of Maryland
Pilot Study to Apply Dynamic Traffic Assignment to Next-Generation Urban Transportation Planning in El Paso Region (P05-0344)
     Salvador Gonzalez-Ayala, El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization; Yi-Chang Chiu, University of Texas, El Paso; Ricardo Dominquez, El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization
Assessment of Heavy-Vehicle Impacts on Emergency Evacuation Operations (P05-0345)
     Shih-Miao Chin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Lee David Han, University of Tennessee; Yuan Fang, University Of Tennessee, Knoxville; Ho-Ling Hwang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Application of DYNASMART-P in A28 Highway Reconstruction Project for Zwolle, Netherlands (P05-0346)
     Wim van der Hoeven, Yu-Sen Chen, DHV Environment and Infrastructure, Netherlands
Development and Evaluation of Emergency Evacuation Strategies with DYNASMART-P (P05-0347)
     Eil Kwon, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Published Meetings

AHB45 Committee Meeting  

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 , 8:00am-12:00pm , Hilton, Caucus
AHB45
Nathan H. Gartner, University of Massachusetts , Lowell , presiding
Sponsored by Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (AHB45)

Committee Meeting AGENDA

AHB45(1) Subcommittee Meeting  

Monday, January 10, 2005, 7:30pm- 9:30pm, Marriott, Washington B1
AHB45(1): Joint Subcommittee on Traffic Simulation Models
Nathan H. Gartner, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Richard G. Dowling, Dowling Associates Inc., presiding
Sponsored by Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (AHB45); Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (AHB40)

Subommittee Meeting AGENDA

Cosponsored Sessions

Sunday, January 9, 2005, 1:30pm- 5:00pm, Hilton, Thoroughbred
Doctoral Student Research in Transportation Modeling
David Lovell, University of Maryland, presiding
Sponsored by Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (ADB30); Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (AHB45); Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting (ADB40); Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values (ADB10)

This half-day workshop consists of reports of Ph.D. student research on transportation modeling and travel behavior. Reports of recently completed (or nearly completed) Ph.D. dissertations and research in progress are welcome.

 

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