Determination of vehicle occupancy for small and medium sized areas

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• Creators:
  Reed, George L. ; Desai, Harshad ; Krueger, Lorin B.
• Corporate Contributors:
  URS Consultants ; Florida. Dept. of Transportation ; Washington (State). Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Vehicle occupancy
  • Commuters
  • Traffic volume
  • Data collection
  • Measuring methods
  • Congestion management systems
  • Small cities
  • Medium sized cities
  • Towns
  • Alternatives analysis
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• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1403369
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00780100
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-Transit Planning and Policy ; NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Travel Demand ; NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-Congestion ; NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-Traffic Flow ; NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-Statistics
• Abstract:
  The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), and its ; continuation, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), ; revisions to the joint FHWA/FTA urban transportation planning regulations, and ; individual state and local area efforts to monitor transportation systems ; performance have resulted in new data requirements. Measurement of persons ; moved and speed of movement is now required for the mobility management and ; congestion management processes. In addition, many strategies to improve ; transportation systems performance have the goal of increasing vehicle ; occupancies, or the number of persons individually or collectively carried ; in all types of highway vehicles. During 1996 and 1997, the Florida Department ; of Transportation undertook a statewide study of methodologies to efficiently ; collect and analyze vehicle occupancy. This paper presents a brief summary of ; study findings, oriented to the small to medium sized area. Overall study ; findings useful in evaluating how to establish an overall vehicle occupancy ; program, alternative methods of data collection, as well as techniques to ; determine vehicle occupancy for single roadways are included. The paper ; includes best practice recommendations for vehicle occupancy data collection, ; analysis, and use for small and medium sized areas. 11p.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12720/dot_12720_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 256.94 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2b7e24f772019515db6913496373a324dc868903986958039955b51349ed6b9d