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https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198120937692

The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance management measures related to highway system reliability, freight, and traffic congestion in light of the federal rulemaking that establishes these performance measures. The study conducts an exploratory analysis to understand their inter-relationships and examines their (un)common underlying attributes to discover their associativity with each of the performance measures. In doing so several traffic and roadway related characteristics of each reporting segment of the National Highway System (NHS) of South Carolina were processed and modeled for the travel time reliability and peak hour excessive delay using generalized linear models with a log-link function. The results from the study indicate that the unreliable Interstate segments contributed to about 87% of the excessive delays on the entire Interstate. It was also found that more than half of the non-Interstate NHS segments that experienced excessive delay, were reliable and they contributed to approximately 52% of the entire peak hour excessive delay of the non-Interstate NHS. The results from the model indicate that the directional annual average daily traffic (AADT) and the urban areas are the two most important attributes positively associated with all three performance measures, while the number of through lanes was found to be negatively associated with all three performance measures. The length of the reporting segments was positively associated with the excessive delays but negatively associated with the travel time reliabilities. The percentage of single trucks was unique to the Interstate delays and positively associated.

The contents of this paper reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the information presented. The South Carolina Department of Transportation (DOT) assumes no liability for the contents and their use. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of South Carolina DOT. © National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2020.

English

pp 571-582

2020-10

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

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References (18)

Annual average daily traffic; Freight traffic; Geometric segments; Highway transportation; Performance measurement; Traffic characteristics; Traffic congestion; Traffic delays; Travel time; Urban areas

National Highway System

South Carolina

Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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