The research is concerned with the development of a Freeway Driver Information System capable of providing real-time traffic information to freeway users and potential users and set in a format which might be incorporated into the operational structure of the Chicago Area Expressway Surveillance Project. The primary objective of the system is to obtain maximum efficiency from the use of existing highway facilities before embarking on the construction of new and costlier ones. The analytical work is directed toward the investigation of driver attitudes toward an information system centered around three major areas: (l) an evaluation of the priorities associated with the provision of a Freeway Driver Information System, (2) an evaluation of potential diversion to alternate routes and current diversionary practices, and (3) an evaluation of driver preferences for alternative visual information displays. The attitudes toward priority of providing information relative to limited specified improvements in highway facilities can be used by the decision maker as a basis for establishing allocation of resources to highway facilities. The potential response to diversion and current diversionary behavior can be used to estimate the potential response to a Freeway Driver Information System. The evaluation of the reception, comprehension, and response to visual information displays can be used as inputs to a Freeway Driver Information System. (Author)


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    Title :

    Chicago Area Expressway Surveillance Project on the Development of a Freeway Driver Information System


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    Publication date :

    1969


    Size :

    294 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English