The purpose of this research was to develop a dynamic model for the on-line
estimation and prediction of freeway users' origin-destination (OD) matric
es. In this paper, we present a Kalman Filtering algorithm that uses time-v
arying assignment matrices generated by using a mesoscopic traffic simulato
r. The use of a traffic simulator to predict time-varying travel time model
parameters was shown to be promising for the determination of dynamic OD m
atrices for a freeway system. Moreover, the issues of using time-varying mo
del parameters, effects of incorporating different sources of measurements
and the use of adaptive estimation are addressed and investigated in this r
esearch.