Development and Assessment of Peak-Period Ramp Closure Strategies for Interstate Highways

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• Creators:
  Chiu, Yi-Chang ; Waller, S Travis
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Texas at El Paso. Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas Department of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Freeway Management Systems Guidelines Implementation Interchange Ramps Interstate Highways Peak Periods
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-05/0-4764-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  With the ever-increasing congestion facing freeways, engineers must explore every possible tool at their disposal. Freeway ramp closures present a potentially underutilized approach for mitigating freeway traffic problems. Selecting and implementing such closures, however, presents a very difficult problem. Due to the potential public outcry and traffic disturbances that can result from misused ramp closure, special care must be given to ramp closure deployment. Even when a feasible ramp closure deployment is known, numerous possible implementation possibilities exists ranging from simply signing to manual and automatic gate operations. This report documents the research to develop a formal laboratorial analysis procedure for evaluating peak-period ramp closure strategies and produce guidelines for successful implementation. These guidelines consider the potential implementation solutions and their application for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), including the before-and-after-implementation system performance assessment and monitoring plans. The field implementation and evaluation of ramp closure was not a part of this research project. However, the field evaluation plan proposed in this report will provide guidance for undertaking such an endeavor.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-4764
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0ff9f3dc66dd90b4138b70def50a536400da8c3ebfff2c8dbbf307046cbab81f33f45a545baee6098cbf6e6d0533cac0bd14dfd2f374157b68f33270833438fc
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/88572/dot_88572_DS1.pdf
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