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Title:

Massachusetts Department of Transportation Complete Streets Pedestrian and Bicycle Level of Service Study

Accession Number:

01555001

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The 2010 update of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) Urban Street Level of Service (1) is currently the primary resource for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to evaluate multimodal level of service (LOS) for pedestrians and bicyclists. VHB assisted MassDOT in conducting a study to understand the state of the practice for multimodal transportation analysis, identify and analyze the quality of various multimodal LOS evaluation tools, and improve MassDOT’s confidence in the quality of tools to simply and reliably provide results that are meaningful to decision makers. The study first task involved a review of the structure and limitations of the HCM 2010 Urban Street LOS methodologies using a typical roadway segment cross-section and evaluating a variety of multimodal facility projects for the segment. The second task involved evaluation and comparison of LOS results using several alternative multimodal LOS tools to evaluate existing and future conditions on five case-study roadway corridors identified by MassDOT for multimodal facility improvement projects. The results of the study suggest that the HCM 2010 Pedestrian and Bicycle LOS methodologies contain significant limitations for practitioners, agencies, and officials responsible for making decisions about multimodal facilities. Alternative tools with streamlined methodologies may be better suited to assess pedestrian and bicycle operations on MassDOT roadways.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Pedestrians.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-4803

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Lovas, Daniel
Nabors, Daniel
Goughnour, Elissa
Rabito, Luciano

Pagination:

23p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Massachusetts

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-4803

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:36PM