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Evaluation tools to support ITS planning process : development of a sketch planning tool in FSUTMS/cube environment.
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2008-12-15
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Abstract:Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) planning requires the use of tools to assess the performance of ITS deployment alternatives relative to each other and to other types of transportation system improvement alternatives. This research project investigates the development of tools and procedures to perform sketch-planning evaluation of the costs and benefits of ITS alternatives within the Florida Standard Urban Transportation Model Structure (FSUTMS) modeling environment. The script language of Cube, the modeling engine of FSUTMS was used to implement the evaluation tool procedures. Developing an ITS evaluation capability as part of the FSUTMS will allow a more powerful, user friendly, and consistent evaluation of ITS deployment alternatives. The implemented procedures allow the evaluation of amp metering, incident management systems, highway advisory radio (HAR) and dynamic message signs (DMS), advanced travel information systems, managed lanes, signal control, transit vehicle signal priority, emergency vehicle signal priority, monitoring and management of fixed route transit, transit information systems, transit security systems, transit electronic payment systems, smart work zones, road weather information systems (RWIS). Depending on the types of the evaluated ITS deployments, the tool can produce ITS impacts on various performance measures including vehicle miles of travel (VMT), vehicle hours of travel (VHT), average speed, number of accidents, fuel Consumption, monetary benefits to users and/or agency, and emission.
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