Identifying, anticipating, and mitigating freight bottlenecks on Alabama interstates.

Details

• Creators:
  Anderson, Kenneth ; Jones, Steven ; Lindly, Jay
• Corporate Contributors:
  University Transportation Center for Alabama
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Freight traffic
  • Bottlenecks
  • Traffic congestion
  • Traffic flow
• Publication/ Report Number:
  UTCA Report Number 07110
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Alabama
• Corporate Publisher:
  University Transportation Center for Alabama
• Abstract:
  "This project established a framework for the creation and maintenance of a statewide strategy for identifying, ; anticipating, and mitigating freight bottlenecks on interstate highways in the state of Alabama. It used ; methodology developed by Cambridge Systematics to identify and quantify bottlenecks. ; This research identified nine freight bottlenecks on Alabama interstates using 2006 traffic data supplied by ; ALDOT. These include six “capacity” bottlenecks, which are caused by an insufficient capacity in relation to ; demand (where the ratio of Average Annual Daily Traffic to the capacity of the roadway in passenger cars per ; hour per lane is greater than 8). The other three bottlenecks are “interchange” bottlenecks, which are similar ; to capacity bottlenecks except they occur at interchanges involving two or more interstates."
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  GR21808
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23710/dot_23710_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.91 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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