Improving Mobility Information with Better Data and Estimation Procedures
Record Type: UTC
The Texas Transportation Institute continues to be a national leader in providing congestion and mobility information. The information produced by TTI is used to communicate the issues of urban mobility at all levels of government in the U.S. and by both industry and non-industry professionals when discussing mobility topics. The transportation field continues to evolve with more technological advancements affecting the travel on the roadways and the data that is collected. This project incorporates the speed data from some of these new technologies into the Urban Mobility Report (UMR) to ensure that the report remains the preeminent source on the subject. The 2009 Urban Mobility Report will utilize the current speed estimation methodology but future reports may be able to incorporate some archived speed information in place of the current estimated speeds. With the fuel price increases of the past few years, an updated analysis of the effects of fuel price fluctuations on travel demand and congestion are being included in the UMR. TTI has developed a methodology for estimating the commodities that are flowing in trucks and the associated traffic delay throughout our nation’s cities. However, at this time, it is unclear how this information can be utilized in decision-making. Some analysis is being performed to determine how to utilize this truck commodity flow information.
Start date: 2009/1/1
End date: 2009/12/31
Status: Completed
Contract/Grant Number: DTRT06-G-0044
Secondary Number: 00038
Total Dollars: 150000
Source Organization: University Transportation Center for Mobility
Date Added: 01/21/2009
Index Terms: Mobility, Traffic congestion, Traffic delay, Traffic estimation, Traffic data, Travel demand, Commodity flow, Data collection, Fuel prices, Research projects,
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University Transportation Center for Mobility
http://utcm.tamu.edu
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
USA
Phone: (979) 845-2538
Fax: (979) 845-9761
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Tooley, Melissa S
Phone: (979) 845-8545
Fax: (979) 845-9761
Email: m-tooley@tamu.edu
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Texas Transportation Institute
http://tti.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
USA
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Lomax, Timothy J.
Phone: (979) 845-9960
Fax: (979) 845-6008
Email: t-lomax@tamu.edu
Wang, Bruce
Phone: (979) 845-9901
Email: bwang@civil.tamu.edu
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