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I like the guy who put it on paper :0)) - ..A remarkable difference between the two approaches is that, in microsimulation, the modelling of lanes and lane-changing behaviour plays an essential role. In contrast, in the current state of the art for "analytic" models, lanes and lane changing are largely ignored and roads are commonly treated as having only a single lane in each direction. This contrast, or lack of realism in analytic network models, is sufficient to explain why microsimulation models are increasingly used in practice in contrast to analytic models despite the need for the latter and their many recent theoretical and computational advances. The purpose of the proposed research is to facilitate and advance the introduction of lanes and lane-changing behaviour into analytic macroscopic models, to bring to these models the benefits and advantages that it brought to microsimulation models, while so far as possible retaining existing advantages of analytic network models. One of the main reasons why traffic changes from one lane to another is to avoid congestion, queues or spill-backs in the other lanes, hence we will simultaneously model the formation and behaviour of such congestion, queues and spillbacks. ...
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