Determine Metric Performance Rankings for Innovative Interchanges and Alternative Assessment
Innovative intersection and interchange designs and smart technologies (e.g. adaptive traffic signal systems, connected vehicle technology, and real time traffic management) are often considered as methods to reduce congestion and promote safety. However, these designs are challenging and time-consuming to consider for a given project. The research team will develop a data-driven innovative design recommendation tool to provide guidance toward feasible design selections of innovative intersections and interchanges. The tool will be applicable in urban settings and consider factors like traffic volumes, safety enhancements, constructability, pedestrian and bicyclist accommodations, and costs. The tool will be complimented by guidance gathered from the literature and stakeholder interviews to help provide context and considerations that cannot be incorporated into the too. This will promote a consistent solution to aid in the intersection design selection process that can be used to reduce costs for considering innovative intersections and can be presented to policymakers as a data-driven recommendation. The research team will vet this prototype tool by applying the tools to existing innovative intersection/interchange design selections within Texas to demonstrate the effectiveness of the design selection solution.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $507,966.00
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Contract Numbers:
0-7260
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Sponsor Organizations:
Texas Department of Transportation
125 E. 11th Street
Austin, TX United States 78701-2483 -
Managing Organizations:
Texas Department of Transportation
125 E. 11th Street
Austin, TX United States 78701-2483 -
Project Managers:
Adediwura, Jade
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Performing Organizations:
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX United States 77843-3135 -
Principal Investigators:
Florence, David
- Start Date: 20260101
- Expected Completion Date: 20270831
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Adaptive control; Alternatives analysis; Decision support systems; Highway design; Interchanges and intersections; Technological innovations; Traffic signal control systems
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01969908
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Texas Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 0-7260
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Oct 28 2025 11:20AM