Congestion on our nation's highways, most commonly found in urban areas, is a serious problem that is growing steadily worse. While Virginia is predominantly rural, there are few Virginians who have not experienced congestion at some time in their travels throughout the state. The magnitude of this congestion is not known. Accordingly, statewide congestion statistics are needed in order to define and evaluate, the problem and to establish the level of effort needed to solve it. Based on a procedure developed by the Federal Highway Administration using High-Performance Monitoring System data, this report documents statewide recurring congestion on Virginia's interstate roadways. Estimates of nonrecurring congestion, congestion in the year 2000, and congestion on other urban roadways are also provided.
On June 5, 1985, a comprehensive, computer-controlled traffic management system (TMS) was implemented on a section of 1-95 and 1-395 in Northern Virgi...
This study addresses the problem of queueing on highway facilities, wherein a large number of computerized methods for the analysis of different queue...
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