Best practices and outreach for active traffic management : final report.

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• Creators:
  Levecq, Charles ; Kuhn, Beverly ; Jasek, Debbie
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute. University Transportation Center for Mobility
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic congestion
  • Traffic flow
  • Highway traffic control
  • Traffic control
  • Traffic congestion--Prevention
  • Traffic engineering
• Publication/ Report Number:
  UTCM 10-01-54-2
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Edition:
  Technical; Jan. 2010-Apr. 2011.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute. University Transportation Center for Mobility
• Abstract:
  Continued growth in travel on congested freeway corridors and limited public funding for ; expansion and improvement projects are limiting agencies’ abilities to provide sufficient roadway ; capacity in major metropolitan areas. Focusing on trip reliability, active traffic management ; (ATM)—widely deployed for decades in Europe but in its early stages in the United States— ; maximizes the effectiveness and efficiency of the facility and increases throughput and safety ; through integrated systems with new technology, including the automation of dynamic ; deployment to optimize performance quickly. This congestion management approach consists of ; a combination of strategies that, when implemented in concert, fully optimize the existing ; infrastructure and provide measurable benefits to the transportation network and the motoring ; public. These strategies include speed harmonization, temporary shoulder use, junction control, ; and dynamic signing and rerouting. By providing transportation agencies across the United ; States with crucial information on best practices for deployment and operation of ATM strategies, ; this project can have a positive impact on transportation networks where ATM is deployed. This ; report provides a summary of the research conducted during a project sponsored by the ; University Transportation Center for Mobility™ related to ATM. This document includes a ; literature review related to ATM, an inventory of ATM deployments both overseas and in the ; United States, a summary of best practices and general guidelines for the deployment of ATM, ; information on the development of an ATM website, and the delivery of a webinar to present the ; project results to increase the awareness of ATM within the transportation profession.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT06-G-0044
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23721/dot_23721_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.07 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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