Evaluation of the effectiveness of ATM messages used during incidents : final report.

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• Creators:
  Rindels, Max ; Zitzow, Stephen ; Hourdos, John
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Minnesota. Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering. Minnesota Traffic Observatory ; University of Minnesota. Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation. Research Services & Library
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic signals
  • Traffic crashes
  • Traffic signal controllers
  • Active traffic management
  • advanced traffic management systems
  • highway traffic control
  • freeway management systems
  • incident management
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MN/RC 2016-04
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Minnesota
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation. Research Services & Library
• Abstract:
  This project investigated the use of Intelligent Lane Control Signs based Active Traffic Management for ; Incident Management on a heavily traveled urban freeway. The subject of the research was the ILCS ; system on I-94 westbound in downtown Minneapolis. This location was selected because of the ; frequency of capacity reducing incidents occurring in this freeway segment. This research aimed to ; evaluate and quantify the effect the system has on drivers, specifically on inducing/directing a desirable ; lane selection behavior. The strength of various uses of the tool in managing traffic during incidents is ; explored instead of a general level of success in improving traffic. To achieve this goal, the centerpiece of ; this research was the comparison and modeling of the lane change rates under different strategies. This ; was a difficult task because all lane changes in the target freeway section had to be detected and ; geolocated. The research followed two main thrusts. The first was a detailed analysis of 28 incident ; events selected among approximately 481 events on record between 2012 and 2013. The second thrust ; was a statistical analysis testing a number of hypotheses prompted by questions proposed by the project ; Technical Advisory Panel. In general, it can be concluded that the use of ILCS for incident management ; has a significant effect on driver behavior and specifically in prompting proper lane selection under ; capacity reducing incidents.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  CTS # 2014029 ; (c) 99008 (wo) 98
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32173/dot_32173_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.47 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2d713dba4eab6ac2d9d5f42238f7a14be688b6d6a8ffe245645c306a04b21c6b