00978523

Monograph

This Transportation Research Record contains 27 papers pertaining to freeway operations and traffic signal systems. Topics discussed include freeway service patrols, neural networks for detecting freeway incidents, truck lane restrictions, merging and diverging traffic, extracting speed from cameras under adverse conditions, bottlenecks, measuring traffic congestion, ramp control strategy, incident detection algorithms, ramp metering strategy, travel time estimation, toll plaza performance, data filtering, weather-responsive traffic management, red clearance intervals, detector location, emergency vehicle preemption, inclement weather and traffic flow, ramp metering queues, adaptive traffic signal control algorithms, online travel time estimation, weather-specific signal timing, automated identification of turning movements, time-of-day breakpoints optimization, SCOOT, and traffic-responsive plan selection system parameters and thresholds.

English

252 p.

2004

Transportation Research Record

0309094615

Figures; References; Tables

Adaptive control; Algorithms; Bottlenecks; Cameras; Diverging traffic; Emergency vehicles; Freeway operations; Freeway service patrols; Incident detection; Location; Loop detectors; Merging traffic; Neural networks; Ramp metering; Red interval (Traffic signal cycle); Speed; Toll plazas; Traffic congestion; Traffic signal control systems; Traffic signal preemption; Travel time; Turning traffic; Weather

Data filtering; Lane restrictions

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities; I71: Traffic Theory; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB

Sep 22 2004 12:00AM

• ANOTHER VIEW OF TRUCK LANE RESTRICTIONS
• ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF INCIDENTS NEAR BOTTLENECKS: STRATEGIES TO REDUCE DELAY
• BENEFIT ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTING WEATHER-SPECIFIC SIGNAL TIMING PLANS BY USING CORSIM
• COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF FEEDBACK-BASED FREEWAY RAMP-METERING STRATEGY BY USING MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION: TAKING RAMP QUEUES INTO ACCOUNT
• CONFIGURATION OF TRAFFIC-RESPONSIVE PLAN SELECTION SYSTEM PARAMETERS AND THRESHOLDS: ROBUST BAYESIAN APPROACH
• CROSS-CORRELATION TRACKING TECHNIQUE FOR EXTRACTING SPEED FROM CAMERAS UNDER ADVERSE CONDITIONS
• ESTIMATION OF TRAVEL TIMES ON URBAN FREEWAYS UNDER INCIDENT CONDITIONS
• EVALUATION OF TOLL PLAZA PERFORMANCE AFTER ADDITION OF EXPRESS TOLL LANES AT MAINLINE TOLL PLAZA
• FIELD TESTING FOR AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF TURNING MOVEMENTS AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS
• INCLEMENT WEATHER AND TRAFFIC FLOW AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS: CASE STUDY FROM NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
• METHOD FOR PRIORITY-RANKING AND EXPANDING FREEWAY SERVICE PATROLS
• METHODOLOGY FOR MEASURING RECURRENT AND NONRECURRENT TRAFFIC CONGESTION
• MINNESOTA'S NEW RAMP CONTROL STRATEGY: DESIGN OVERVIEW AND PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
• MODELING IMPACT OF RAMP METERING QUEUES ON DIAMOND INTERCHANGE OPERATIONS
• NEW ALGORITHMS FOR FILTERING AND IMPUTATION OF REAL-TIME AND ARCHIVED DUAL-LOOP DETECTOR DATA IN I-4 DATA WAREHOUSE
• OBSERVED DYNAMIC TRAFFIC FEATURES ON FREEWAY SECTION WITH MERGES AND DIVERGES
• ONLINE TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION WITHOUT VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION
• OPTIMAL DETECTOR LOCATION FOR BUS SIGNAL PRIORITY
• OPTIMIZATION OF TIME-OF-DAY BREAKPOINTS FOR BETTER TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL
• RED CLEARANCE INTERVALS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
• RESEARCH NEEDS FOR WEATHER-RESPONSIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
• SAMPLING STRATEGIES FOR PROBE-VEHICLE-BASED FREEWAY INCIDENT DETECTION ALGORITHMS
• SCOOT AND INCIDENTS: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IN SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT
• SIMPLE WORKSHEET METHOD TO EVALUATE EMERGENCY VEHICLE PREEMPTION AND ITS IMPACTS ON SAFETY
• SINGLE-INTERSECTION EVALUATION OF REAL-TIME ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL ALGORITHMS
• SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF FREEWAY BOTTLENECKS
• TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKS TO DETECT FREEWAY INCIDENTS BY USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION