Optimization of Long-Term Highway Work Zone Scheduling
With the rapid development of the transportation system, an increasing number of work zone projects comes with the needs of new construction and regular maintenance related investments in transportation. However, the negative impacts of such work zone projects on the traffic in the transportation network may be inevitable and can cause many issues socially, economically and environmentally. As such, work zone projects that aim at relieving congestion while expanding capacity of the network is becoming more important. In 2017, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for performance-based planning and programming. It requires state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to measure and report the performance of infrastructures in the National Highway System within their jurisdictions. A series of enhanced performance measures have been developed and included in this new rule. However, it is still lacking in performance measures for assessing congestion under special events including the presence of work zones. Despite such absence of metrics which can be used for evaluation, attention should also be paid to minimize the impacts of relevant work zone activities. The main goal of this research project is to develop, use and recommend a macroscopic optimization model to evaluate the mobility impacts of long-term work zone events and optimizing the scheduling of starting dates of such work zone projects.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $90006
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747133
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Sponsor Organizations:
Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Charlotte, NC United States 28223Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, North Carolina United States 28223-0001 -
Project Managers:
Fan, Wei
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Performing Organizations:
Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Charlotte, NC United States 28223 -
Principal Investigators:
Fan, Wei
- Start Date: 20191001
- Expected Completion Date: 20200930
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Construction scheduling; Evaluation and assessment; Freeways; Highways; Impacts; Mobility; Optimization; Work zone traffic control; Work zones
- Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01724141
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education
- Contract Numbers: 69A3551747133
- Files: UTC, RiP
- Created Date: Dec 1 2019 10:22AM