Continued growth in travel on congested freeway corridors and limited public funding for expansion and improvement projects are limiting agencies abilities to provide sufficient roadway capacity in major metropolitan areas. Focusing on trip reliability, active traffic management (ATM) widely deployed for decades in Europe but in its early stages in the United States maximizes the effectiveness and efficiency of the facility and increases throughput and safety through integrated systems with new technology, including the automation of dynamic deployment to optimize performance quickly. This congestion management approach consists of a combination of strategies that, when implemented in concert, fully optimize the existing infrastructure and provide measurable benefits to the transportation network and the motoring public. These strategies include speed harmonization, temporary shoulder use, junction control, and dynamic signing and rerouting. By providing transportation agencies across the United States with crucial information on best practices for deployment and operation of ATM strategies, this project can have a positive impact on transportation networks where ATM is deployed.


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    Title :

    Best Practices and Outreach for Active Traffic Management


    Contributors:
    C. Levecq (author) / B. Kuhn (author) / D. Jasek (author)

    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    66 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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