Economical evaluation of intercity service complex by ARENA simulation software

Annually, Millions of passengers and vehicles use country road networks which need different requirements. Constructing service complexes is a solution to provide passengers’ demands. In this paper, complexes’ construction budget, needed time of second phase timing and rate of interest for investers were modeled by ARENA software. Next, economical analyses were done by the output of COMFAR software. Statistical and traffic data are needed for real simulation. Some effective data such as arrival traffic of complex were obtained from AASHTO. Other required information were collected from transportation department of Kerman province.