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Freeway Operations; Regional Systems Management and Operations; Managed Lanes 2013

Overview

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2396 consists of 16 pages that explore collisions in freeway traffic; self-learning adaptive ramp metering; macroscopic travel time reliability diagrams for freeway networks; the impact of heavy vehicles on freeway operating characteristics under congested conditions; an analysis of corridor management strategies; and traffic queue estimations for metered motorway on-ramps.

This issue of the TRR also examines an estimation of diversion rate during incidents; travel time reliability on freeway facilities; route travel time distributions; secondary crashes on freeways; weather-responsive traffic management strategies; smart event traffic management; the impacts to transit from variably priced toll lanes; simulating high-occupancy toll lane operations; lane flow distributions on hard shoulder running freeways; and lane-changing behavior along different types of high-occupancy vehicle facilities.

This issue includes the following articles:

 
2396, pp. 1–9
 
 
 
2396, pp. 10–18
 
 
 
2396, pp. 19–27
 
 
 
2396, pp. 28–37
 
 
 
2396, pp. 38–44
 
 
 
2396, pp. 45–53
 
 
 
2396, pp. 54–60
 
 
 
2396, pp. 61–70
 
 
 
2396, pp. 71–81
 
 
 
2396, pp. 82–92
 
 
 
2396, pp. 93–106
 
 
 
2396, pp. 107–116
 
 
 
2396, pp. 117–123
 
 
 
2396, pp. 124–132
 
 
 
2396, pp. 133–142
 
 
 
2396, pp. 143–150
 

Source Organization Location

Washington
,
DC

Operations Area of Practice

    Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
    Freeway Management
    Emergency Transportation Operations

Organizational Capability Element

    Performance Management
    Planning
    Freeway Operations
    Emergency Transportation Operations

Content Type

Research

Role in Organization

Transportation Planner
Public
Senior Engineer
Researcher/Academic
Principal Engineer
Manager / First Line Supervisor
Director / Program Manager
Maintenance Staff
Technician
CEO / GM / Commissioner
Engineer
Operator
Senior Manager
Public Safety Officer
Transit Professional
Associate Engineer
Media / PIO

Publishing Organization

TRB
TOM Chapters
20.2
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Issue Date
Publication Number
2396