To improve freeway modeling and operations, it is important to understand how traffic conditions evolve in both time and space. The widespread availability of freeway sensor data makes detailed operational analysis possible in ways that were not available in the past. This study, inspired by several other studies of a 6-mi segment of Interstate 405 in Orange County, California, describes the evolution of traffic conditions over one morning peak period by using inductive loop detector data, including vehicle count and lane occupancy measured at 30-s intervals. With cumulative curves of vehicle count and occupancy, transformed in ways that enhanced their resolution, 10 bottleneck activations were identified in time and space over one morning peak period. At bottleneck activation, queue propagation was observed in generally predictable ways. Bottleneck outflows were carefully measured only while the bottlenecks were active, that is, while queued conditions persisted upstream and unqueued (freely flowing) conditions prevailed downstream. When bottlenecks were activated immediately following freely flowing conditions, outflow reductions were observed at queue formation. These reductions were consistent with those in previous studies. The study was limited in that only one day's data were analyzed and ramp data were not available on the day analyzed. Future research will include further analysis of the same site by using more recent data now that ramp counts are available in the California Performance Measurement System database. Understanding the mechanisms that lead to bottleneck activation is a critical step toward improving the understanding of how freeways function and is necessary for addressing operational issues. This clear understanding provides a foundation for determining ramp metering rates and addressing the freeway characteristics that cause bottlenecks to form.


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    Titel :

    Use of Performance Measurement System Data to Diagnose Freeway Bottleneck Locations Empirically in Orange County, California


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2005




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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