The Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin -ARnews-

Re: Monte Carlo Simulation

Mark Bailey ([email protected])
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 18:06:27 -0500 (EST)

My firm and others I know of use the technique all the time. The Kost and Werner article explains it well. Monte Carlo simulation is well suited to accident reconstruciton problems where a mathematical model is constructed to represent some accident scenario and the inputs for the variables are ranges rather than single variables. Examples of inputs are such things as a uniform distribution between two values for a drag factor, a lognormal distribution for perception response time, a range of values for a departure angle etc. The software is available at www.decisioneering.com and works as an add-in to your excel spreadsheet.

Mark Bailey
[email protected]

NOTE: You are reading in an archived session of ARnews. It is possible that this topic is still being discussed. To see if this topic is still active, or of there were any more recent posts on this topic, check later archives of ARnews.

If there is no current post, and you would like to add to this topic, link to the Current ARnews Discussion and begin a new thread. Be sure that if you are starting a new post that the thread title does not contain the abbreviation RE: Placing RE: at the beginning of a new post will confuse Hypermail and prevent others from answering your post in the future.

For example, to continue this discussion look for a thread titled

Monte Carlo Simulation

If this thread does not exist in the current archive, you can begin another one by using that title.