Rocky Mountain National Park intelligent transportation system evaluation plan.

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• Creators:
  Villwock-Witte, Natalie ; Eidswick, Jaime ; Ye, Zhirui ; Albert, Stephen
• Corporate Creators:
  Western Transportation Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • National parks
  • Peak periods
  • Traffic congestion
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Variable message signs
  • Highway advisory radio
  • Evaluation
  • Tourists
  • Summer
  • Data collection
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Colorado
• Corporate Publisher:
  Rocky Mountain National Park ; Central Federal Lands Highway Division
• Abstract:
  Rocky Mountain National Park (ROMO) has maintained a consistent level of visitation over the ; last few years, approximately 3 million annual visitors (1). About 40% of these visitors come ; from the “front range.” The “front range” includes residents of Denver, Fort Collins, and their ; surrounding suburbs. Visitation is concentrated during the peak summer season. Concentrated ; visitation results in serious congestion in ROMO and its gateway community of Estes Park, ; Colorado. In an effort to reduce congestion and improve visitor experience, a pilot Intelligent ; Transportation System (ITS) composed of Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) and Highway ; Advisory Radio (HAR) will be implemented during the summer of 2011. A more in-depth ; discussion of the system and its implementation can be found in the Rocky Mountain National ; Park Dynamic Message Sign/Highway Advisory Radio Operations Plan (2). ; This document presents a plan for evaluating the effectiveness of the ITS in achieving the project ; goals. The goals, objectives, performance measures and data sources are discussed in the next ; section. The subsequent section discusses the specific data collection needs defined for this ; evaluation. The final section describes how the data will be utilized in the analysis.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29323/dot_29323_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 896.49 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1bf7a1a468be769e85905d1ce7660a8cd194ffaf11808664631bec9a0f231aa9