Use of advanced analysis tools to support freeway corridor freight planning.

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• Creators:
  Hadi, Mohammed ; Ozen, Halit ; Chi, Hongbo ; Zhao, Wei ; Sarikonda, Harish
• Corporate Creators:
  Lehman Center for Transportation Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Research and Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway corridors
  • Transportation corridors
  • Dynamic traffic assignment
  • Traffic assignment
  • Freight service
  • Intermodal services Corridor Freight Management, Dynamic Traffic
  • Assignment, Mesoscopic Models
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida. Department of Transportation. Office of Research Development
• Abstract:
  Advanced corridor freight management and pricing strategies are increasingly being chosen to ; address freight mobility challenges. As a result, evaluation tools are needed to assess the benefits ; of these strategies as compared to other alternatives. The goal of this project is to investigate ; methods and tools that can be used to assess combinations of such improvement strategies as part ; of the corridor freight planning process. ; The assessment environment developed in this project utilizes a dynamic traffic assignment ; (DTA)/mesoscopic traffic simulation tool that is integrated with the Florida statewide traffic ; demand forecasting model (FLSWM). The developed environment includes utilities to convert ; the FLSWM network and demand files to DTA tool inputs. A method is used to estimate the ; time-variant (short-time interval) demand matrices required as inputs to the DTA tool. Both ; conventional traffic detector data and data obtained from Intelligent Transportation Systems ; (ITS) detectors are imported to the developed environment. The imported data is used to support ; the calibration of the traffic flow model of the DTA tool and to estimate the time variant demand ; matrices. The study demonstrates the use of the developed environment in assessing two ; advanced corridor freight management strategies: advanced traveler information systems and ; truck/toll lanes.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  BDK80 TWO #977-05
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18320/dot_18320_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.52 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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