Advanced development and calibration of the network robustness index to identify critical road network links.

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• Creators:
  Novak, David ; Sullivan, Jim ; Aultman-Hall, Lisa, 1968-
• Corporate Creators:
  Transportation Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Highways Networks Roads
• Publication/ Report Number:
  UVM TRC Report # 10-019
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Vermont
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Vermont. Transportation Research Center
• Abstract:
  In this research project, transportation flexibility and reliability concepts are extended and applied
  
  to a new method for identifying the most critical links in a road network. Current transportation
  
  management practices typically utilize localized level-of-service (LOS) measures such as the volumeto-
  
  capacity ratio (V/C) (Bremmer et al. 2004, Dheenadayalu et al. 2004). The solution to congestion
  
  planning problems is often to simply add more capacity along existing highway segments. This is a
  
  purely localized solution. The localized V/C approach does not necessarily allow planners to identify
  
  the most critical highway segments or corridors in terms of maximizing system-wide travel-time
  
  benefits, or to assess the robustness of a network. For system-wide objectives, there is a need for
  
  coincident consideration of the spatial distribution of traffic demand, the network topology and the
  
  network capacity.
  
  While implementing localized solutions may result in localized benefits, these solutions may have
  
  limited, negligible or even adverse system-wide effects. Recent studies of induced travel in North
  
  America offer strong evidence that this is indeed the case (see Scott 2002). An equal level of
  
  investment in another location or locations may provide greater benefits to the overall network. We
  
  argue that the localized V/C-based planning approach is inadequate and propose a comprehensive
  
  system-wide approach to identifying critical infrastructure and evaluating network performance –
  
  the Network Robustness Index (NRI) first introduced in Scott et al. (2006) and refined in Sullivan et
  
  al. (2010). At the same time, the management approach must complement existing local planning
  
  efforts. With the increased focus on ensuring that transportation infrastructure is robust from both a
  
  security standpoint as well as for evacuation needs, reliance on localized congestion measures to
  
  direct policy is clearly outdated.
  
  
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  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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