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Title: TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT DURING THE I-195 PROVIDENCE RIVER BRIDGE REPAIR PROJECT (ABRIDGMENT)
Accession Number: 00625673
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Many states in the Northeast no longer can overlook their aging, overly congested urban highways. However, rebuilding these highways is not simply design and construction. Today's major highway reconstruction projects require the skills of a wide range of transportation professionals, responsible not only for rebuilding the highway, but also for managing the transportation needs of the affected commuters. Realizing this, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) called on traffic engineers, transportation planners, transit officials, local police officers, community liaison staff, and public relations consultants to develop a traffic-management plan for the I-195 Providence River Bridge Repair Project. To meet the needs of commuters in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, traffic management strategies were compiled, selected, and implemented to move people through and around the project area. These strategies included education (public information and community liaison activities), traffic engineering (coordination of traffic control signals and emergency routes), enforcement (monitoring and enforcing speed limits), and ridesharing and transit (carpool matching, free bus service and park-and-ride lots). The traffic management strategies presented are not all-inclusive. They are intended to present the strategies and actions that were both successful and unsuccessful for RIDOT. Each reconstruction project is unique. Traffic-management strategies must be selected to conform to the project area and the project's characteristics.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1360, Traffic Operations. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01405038
Language: English
Authors: Devine, Stephen ABucci, Joseph ABerman, Daniel JPagination: p. 1-3
Publication Date: 1992
Serial: ISBN: 0309052238
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jan 5 1993 12:00AM
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