Characterizing Highway Corridor Length to Evaluate Travel Time Reliability using Probe Vehicle Data

Anonymous probe vehicle data are currently being collected on major interstates and arterials throughout the United States. Probe data are used to assign average speeds to pre-define roadway segments of varying lengths. These segments are known as Traffic Message Channels (TMCs). Through the analysis of this probe data for each TMC, transportation agencies have been making progress in the development of agency wide performance measures to better plan and manage spatially distributed infrastructure assets. One widely accepted performance measure is travel time reliability, which is calculated along a series of TMC segments that collectively makes up a corridor. When consistent travel times are not achieved, due to incidents or recurring periods of congestion, it is desirable to understand the time and frequency of these increased travel time incidents to better manage the system.

• Record URL:
  http://www.utrc2.org/research/projects/highway-corridor-length

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $16163.00
• Contract Numbers:

  49997-18-25

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  University Transportation Research Center

  City College of New York
  Marshak Hall, Suite 910, 160 Convent Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10031
• Project Managers:

  Eickemeyer, Penny

• Performing Organizations:

  College of New Jersey

  200 Pennington Road
  Ewing, NJ  United States  08628-0718
• Principal Investigators:

  Brennan Jr, Thomas

• Start Date: 20140101
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20150630
• Source Data: RiP Project 36048

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Interstate highways; Probe vehicles; Real time information; Traffic congestion; Traffic data; Travel time
• Uncontrolled Terms: Travel time reliability
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01550219
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University Transportation Research Center
• Contract Numbers: 49997-18-25
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 21 2015 1:00AM