Validation of the CL-CTM freeway merge model

Abstract

This paper presents the empirical validation of the Capacity Lagged Cell Transmission Model (CL-CTM) which consists on an improvement of the well know Newell-Daganzo merge model called Cell Transmission Model (CTM). The model introduces the Lagged property as well as the capacity drop phenomenon in order to improve the accuracy of the method and bring in an observed phenomenon in empirical investigations