The Portland Regional Transportation Plan’ indicates that by the year 2010, $5 billion dollars will be spent on transportation, and the region will have even more congestion on major corridors than today. The Portland region cannot rid itself of congestion by simply building new transportation infrastructure. A coordinated, systematic approach will be necessary to effectively manage the region’s transportation infrastructure as the region develops a multi-modal transportation system. We will need to develop methods of getting the most out of the infrastructure already in place. By working efficiently and cooperatively among agencies, we can build and manage a smarter transportation system using Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS)
Freeway simulation is gaining increasing acceptance and popularity as a toll for evaluating freeway improvement alternatives and refining freeway desi...
The objective of this paper is to develop a realistic and operational macroscopic traffic flow simulation model which requires relatively less data co...
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