01120898

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https://doi.org/10.3141/2086-08

http://scholar.google.com...ssco&publication_year=2008

The mobility and disutility-reduction benefits to users of the 511 advisory service currently deployed in Salt Lake City, Utah, were evaluated through a modeling study conducted using the HOWLATE (Heuristic On-Line Web-Linked Arrival Time Estimation) methodology. The benefits of the existing 511 advisory service to seasoned users of the service and the potential additional benefit to providing travel-time estimates via the 511 service were evaluated. Data were provided by the Utah Department of Transportation. Four types of commuters were modeled: (a) a nonuser, who ignored traveler information; (b) a 511 advisory user, who made use of the 511 advisory service currently available to commuters in Salt Lake City; (c) a 511 travel-time user, who made use of a hypothetical 511 service that provided travel-time estimates; and (d) a dynamic message sign (DMS) user, who made use of DMS deployed along 20 mi of I-15. Analysis showed that the existing 511 advisory service resulted in mobility and disutility-reduction benefits to seasoned commuters. Compared with the nonuser, the 511 advisory user was able to reduce peak-period late arrivals by 14%. By supplementing the existing 511 advisory service with DMS, late arrivals for current 511 advisory users can be further reduced by more than 10%. Providing travel times for the entire network over the 511 service can reduce peak-period late arrivals for current 511 advisory users by nearly 30%.

01120900

English

pp 64-71

2008

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309125987

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Maps (2) ; References (18) ; Tables (1)

Benefits; Commuters; Mobility; Variable message signs

511 (National Travel Information Number); HOWLATE

Disutility; On-time arrival

Salt Lake City (Utah)

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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