Dynamic Traffic Control Interventions for Enhanced Mobility and Economic Competitiveness
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2016-07-01
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TRIS Online Accession Number:01608583
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Edition:Final Report
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Abstract:The goal of this research is to develop and evaluate methods to support active traffic management (ATM) strategies that can be applied off-line in planning for operations and in near real time to improve traffic performance of freeway facilities subject to all sources of congestion. The specific objectives are: (1) To develop tools to assist operators in determining the impacts of their actions on freeway system performance; (2) To create a prioritized list of feasible solutions that can remedy deficiencies based on the tools developed in objective 1; (3) To implement those tools in a macroscopic simulation model, at an appropriate time resolution; and (4) To test and validate the methodology on real world facilities in North Carolina and Florida. This research therefore proposes a framework that is intended to be an operational level macroscopic simulation environment based on the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) concepts to evaluate the operations on a freeway facility when using ATM strategies. As a primary objective, it seeks to provide functionalities similar to those available in Traffic Management Centers (TMCs). Both the framework and methodology build on the core freeway facilities methodology.
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