Decision-Support Tools: Development and Tutorial

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Operational Analysis of Active Traffic Management Strategies
• Creators:
  Boyles, Stephen
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas Department of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Decision making
  • Highway traffic
  • Implementation
  • Regression analysis
  • Traffic simulation
  • Data collection
  • Origin and destination
• Publication/ Report Number:
  0-6859-P1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Description:
  This document describes the spreadsheet tools implementing the regression models developed in the main report (0-6859-1). The tools offer a user-friendly interface to evaluate the effectiveness of active traffic management (ATM) strategies for a given network. Three ATM strategies are considered: ramp metering, variable speed limit (VSL), and dynamic lane use control (DLUC). For each ATM strategy, the spreadsheet tool provides three cases based on the level of data availability: • The no-data case assumes that the agency has no data available to build or calibrate either a microsimulation or a dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) model. • The microsimulation-only case assumes that the agency has real-time data available to build and calibrate the microsimulation model but has no data available to develop a DTA model. • The DTA-only case assumes that the agency has access to strategic data to build a DTA model but only limited access to real-time data to build a microsimulation model.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-6859
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/86785/dot_86785_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1006.22 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:42fee244f3b7c6c01ace06a618947edccd1cf2c5b091193d0ac75a35e199a91218dab464b22a40cdc4df1dd6dfb30dde81b3312c045c8d4aa7f16e91ffb89bb3