TH-36 full closure construction evaluation of traffic operations alternatives.

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• Creators:
  Hourdos, John ; Hong, Feili
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Minnesota. Dept. of Civil Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation. Research Services Section
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway operations
  • Traffic control
  • Highway traffic control systems
  • Work zone traffic control
  • Saturation flow
  • Traffic congestion
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MN/RC 2010-04
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Minnesota
• Corporate Publisher:
  Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation. Research Services Section
• Abstract:
  According to the 2007 Urban Mobility Report, $78 billion was lost due to congestion on urban roadways. Many ; urban corridors around the country experience demand that is close to or greater than the available capacity. ; Although most agree that the transportation system has matured and that we will not build ourselves out of ; congestion, existing infrastructure still often requires expansion. Such expansion in an already developed system ; most likely does not involve new roadway construction but results in existing roadway upgrades. Such roadways ; normally already serve considerable demand, a fact that increases the importance of the impact to the roadway ; users, estimated as Road User Costs (RUCs), and raises safety concerns both for the driving public as well as for ; the people working on reconstruction projects. New construction methods like Full Road Closure claim to reduce ; RUCs as well as reduce capital costs. This project follows the first large-scale Full Closure in Minnesota in an ; attempt to learn from the experience and propose the most appropriate tools and methodologies for planning, ; staging, and executing the construction. For the latter, three traffic analysis tools are selected for estimating RUCs ; due to the construction project. Their effort and data requirements, as well as their accuracy is evaluated and ; compared to the empirical, engineering-judgment-based, method used by Mn/DOT. ; 17. Document
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  89261 (wo) 66
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17879/dot_17879_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.00 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bc008bf96a681f1945e7718072ddb386b6a21262ebc9c7d3e35184a0e765529c