An Open-Source Traffic Assignment Tool for Assessing the Effects of Roadway Pricing and Crash Reduction Strategies on Recurring and Non-Recurring Congestion

This research will provide transportation planners and engineers with a rigorous and computationally efficient tool to access corridor and network wide effects of road pricing and crash reduction strategies on recurring and non-recurring congestion, using performance measures that can be directly applied in investment-level planning and decision-making process. The work scope and plan includes incorporating the ability to simulate the effects of non-recurring events on network performance into the Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) Lite tool or any other tool, is not a trivial matter, particularly in a stochastic and time sensitive environment. The research team is nevertheless confident in its ability to add this capability which builds upon our joint efforts in this arena as part of the SHRP2 C05 project.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $377477.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTFH61-11-C-00012

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Project Managers:

  Gardner, Brian

• Performing Organizations:

  Kittelson and Associates

  1818 Library Street, Suite 500
  Reston, VA  United States  20190
• Start Date: 20110216
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20130116
• Source Data: RiP Project 33015

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Dynamic traffic assignment; Network analysis (Planning); Performance measurement; Road pricing; Traffic assignment; Traffic congestion; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01466569
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-11-C-00012
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 3:19PM