Research Article

Cross-Comparison and Calibration of Two Microscopic Traffic Simulation Models for Complex Freeway Corridors with Dedicated Lanes

Table 4

Calibration of freeway flows under MAPE criterion.

Freeway: 5-min flows of SR-99 Northbound

Criterion 2: MAPE

Detector Location
(post-mile)
TargetAIMSUNMOTUS
MAPETarget Met?MAPETarget Met?

287.3MAPE < 10%1.99%Yes5.58%Yes

287.6MAPE < 10%9.36%Yes11.85%No

289.3MAPE < 10%9.17%Yes10.80%No

289.4MAPE < 10%8.61%Yes9.88%Yes

290.0MAPE < 10%6.85%Yes8.42%Yes

290.7MAPE < 10%7.41%Yes9.08%Yes

291.5MAPE < 10%9.92%Yes10.56%No

291.9MAPE < 10%10.38%No11.21%No

292.4MAPE < 10%8.98%Yes9.59%Yes

292.8MAPE < 10%8.02%Yes9.35%Yes

294.0MAPE < 10%8.37%Yes9.01%Yes

294.7MAPE < 10%7.37%Yes8.26%Yes

295.3MAPE < 10%8.01%Yes8.14%Yes

296.0MAPE < 10%10.52%No7.48%Yes

297.9MAPE < 10%14.20%No7.23%Yes

298.5MAPE < 10%14.09%No8.49%Yes

OverallMAPE < 10%8.21%Yes9.06%Yes