Alabama Statewide Mobility Study
The objective of the proposed project is to leverage crowdsourced data to better understand interstate mobility and congestion in Alabama. The results can be used by state employees and consultants to make changes and improvements to enhance mobility and safety. Crowdsourced data is a new and emerging data set that has been piloted in a couple of Alabama counties, but a statewide exploration will help to characterize operations across the entire state. The characterization can be used to identify areas with congestion concerns. From a safety standpoint, congestion on the interstate is a cause for crashes due to queuing and large speed differentials. Assessing the statewide interstate mobility performance will include producing a prioritized list of concerns (highly-congested areas) and possible countermeasures or improvements that might be made to improve conditions. As the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) reorganizes from districts into regions, these same techniques will be used at a regional level to help the region offices prioritize concerns and potential projects within their newly inherited areas of responsibility. A graphical report will be compiled featuring performance measures useful in identifying recurring and non‐recurring congestion, both of which are operational and safety concerns. The report will be useful to ALDOT employees for maintenance, operations, planning, and project programming.
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Supplemental Notes:
- ALDOT General Agreement #K-11-1470 and Supplemental Agreement #K-14-0149. This project has been assigned number 930-893. This project is funded by State Planning and Reserch (SP&R) funds that have an 80/20 Federal/State match.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $64718.00
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Contract Numbers:
930-893
GR24926, UTCA #14413
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Sponsor Organizations:
Alabama Department of Transportation
1409 Coliseum Boulevard
Montgomery, AL United States 36130-3050 -
Project Managers:
Johnson, Ron
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Performing Organizations:
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
P.O. Box 870205
Tuscaloosa, AL United States 35487-0205 -
Principal Investigators:
Hainen, Alexander
- Start Date: 20150101
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20150901
- Source Data: RiP Project 38936
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Mobility; Queuing; Speed; Traffic congestion; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety
- Geographic Terms: Alabama
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01569299
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 930-893, GR24926, UTCA #14413
- Files: UTC, RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jul 9 2015 1:00AM