Development of frontage road yield treatment analysis tool (FRYTAT) database software.

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Project title: Assessment of frontage road yield treatments
• Creators:
  Garcia, Mei ; Ding, Liang ; Obeng-Boampong, Kwaku ; Henk, Russell
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Express Highway Interchanges--Texas--Design And Construction Frontage Roads Off Ramps Roads--Texas--Interchanges And Intersections--Design And Construction U Turns
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-09/0-4986-2
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Edition:
  Technical Report; Sept. 2007-Aug. 2008.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) sponsored Project 0-4986, “An Assessment of Frontage Road
  
  Yield Treatments,” to assess the effectiveness of a wide variety of frontage road–exit ramp and frontage road–U-turn
  
  yield treatments that exist in Texas. Toward this goal, simulation modeling procedures compensated for the
  
  impracticability of the data collection effort that would be required to compile every possible combination of
  
  volume, geometry, and yield treatment types.
  
  Researchers ran several thousand simulations and generated significant numbers of measures of performance and
  
  comparative analysis. Researchers, in consultation with TxDOT, sought to develop a database software tool to
  
  incorporate all the results obtained from the initial research. This will provide TxDOT staff with a more useful tool
  
  in determining appropriate yield treatments at exit ramp/U-turn and frontage road merge areas.
  
  This report summarizes the work completed during the extension year, which resulted in the development of the
  
  Frontage Road Yield Treatment Analysis Tool (FRYTAT). The report briefly summarizes the interaction and
  
  coordination between the TxDOT panel and the Texas Transportation Institute research team, describes the
  
  development of the main framework of the tool, and illustrates the final product, FRYTAT.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-4986
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:476ec768682518d6ac450ac3d2b287bec4b41dee64a9726b18b9e2550e1fc7d9
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5669/dot_5669_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 172.05 KB ]