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Thesis (PhD(Transport Engineering))--University of South Australia, 2017. Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-230) Traffic congestion, caused by the increased use of automobiles and limited land space, may generate unnecessary time consumption and pollutant emissions from the use of fossil fuels has become a serious social problem. Solving or minimising traffic congestion is a challenging task for traffic engineers and scholars, particularly at intersections with interrupted traffic flow, causing the most congestion having the majority of accidents. This research, therefore, formulated queuing length estimation models with six main parameters based on a conceptual model with three different models formulated in accordance with the role of each approach. Optimal detector locations were selected using the models.

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Thesis (MTransportSysEngineering)--University of South Australia, 2005. Transport systems can be modelled and analysed with two techniques namely analytical and simulation. Until recently, aaSIDRA was the leader in the traffic modelling and analysis software based on analytical theory at micro scale. However, it cannot be used for more than one intersection. Meanwhile, the PARAMICS, AIMSUN NG and VISSIM are micro simulation software which are widely used in modelling and analysing transport systems. Further, CUBE Dynasim is also micro simulation software. It is created by Dynalogic in France and integrated in CUBE by Citilabs, UK. However, this software is relatively new compared to PARAMICS, AIMSUN NG or VISSIM. It is able to model multi nodes and multi modals transport system. The version of software used in this research is CUBE Dynasim 1.4.9 released in 2004 aaSIDRA 2.0 version 2.0.0.205.