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https://doi.org/10.3141/1811-07

http://scholar.google.com...ktan&publication_year=2002

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has identified the maintenance of traffic (MOT) as a top priority to serve the motoring public as part of a department strategic initiative. A key component of this strategy is to ensure that traffic flows efficiently through work zones. Work is described that was performed for ODOT to determine whether commercially available traffic simulation models could be calibrated to yield accurate queue length and delay time predictions for planning purposes in freeway work zones. Four work zones on multilane freeways were selected by ODOT for collection of the calibration data. Traffic flow video records were obtained at the four selected work zones by two ODOT video recording vans equipped with 15-m masts. Traffic flow parameters were extracted from the video records with the Mobilizer-PC software package. The traffic simulation and prediction tools investigated included the Highway Capacity Software (HCS), Synchro, CORSIM (under ITRAF and TRAFVU), NetSim, and a macroscopic model called QueWZ92. Simulation models were constructed with all models for the selected work zones, and the simulated queue lengths and delay times were compared with the data extracted from the field data with Mobilizer-PC. The results of this study indicated that the microscopic simulation packages could not be calibrated to the oversaturated conditions that existed at the work zones. The calibrated microscopic simulation packages underestimated the length of the queues that formed in the real world. The macroscopic QueWZ92 produced more accurate estimates than did the microscopic packages.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1811, Advanced Traffic Management Systems for Freeways and Traffic Signal Systems 2002.

English

p. 57-66

2002

Transportation Research Record

0309077370

Figures (2) ; References (12) ; Tables (7)

Accuracy; Alternatives analysis; Calibration; Freeways; Length; Mathematical prediction; Microscopic traffic flow; Traffic delays; Traffic flow; Traffic queuing; Traffic simulation; Videotapes; Work zones

CORSIM (Traffic simulation model); Highway Capacity Software; Netsim (Computer program); QueWZ92 (Computer program); Synchro (Computer program)

Field data; Macroscopic simulation

Ohio

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

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