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Abstract This paper developed a first-order deterministic macroscopic model H-CTM (heterogeneous cell transmission model) based on basic cell transmission model (CTM). The methodological calibration of the model considers the aggregate behavior of heterogeneous traffic under weak lane discipline. H-CTM incorporates a nonlinear fundamental diagram (FD), modeled for non-lane-based heterogeneous traffic, instead of traditional piecewise linear FD. For validating the model performance, high resolution traffic data were collected from a major arterial roadway (N3-Highway) of Dhaka city covering both peak and off-peak periods. Subsequently, the calibrated FD parameters were incorporated in the newly developed H-CTM to simulate the traffic. The estimated traffic states by the proposed model were then compared with basic model of CTM. Model performances, calculated in terms of mean absolute error based on ground truth values show that the H-CTM can be used to describe the traffic dynamics in the stated traffic system better than the basic model.