Traffic congestion and reliability: Making the connection with operations. Part 1: Measuring and tracking reliability

ITE Journal (Institute of Transportation Engineers)

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 24-28

  Margiotta, Richard ^a,b   Taylor, Rich ^c,d  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Metropolitan Planning Organization   (United States)

^c Intelligent Transportation Society of America   (United States)

^d Wilbur Smith Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI-PRONGED APPROACH; OPERATIONS STRATEGIES; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC RELIABILITY; TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITY;

HIGHWAY PLANNING; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RELIABILITY; STATISTICS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 33344474999     PISSN: 01628178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Federal Highway Administration Office of Operations Web site, www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/congestion_report/index.htm.
2. Schrank, D. and T. Lomax. The 2005 Urban Mobility Report. Texas Transportation Institute, May 2005. Accessible via mobility.tamu.edu.
3. National Transportation Operations Coalition - Performance Measurement Initiative, Final Report, July 2005. Accessible via www. ntoctalks.com/ ntoc/ntoc_final_report.pdf.
4. Cohen, H. and F. Southword. "On the Measurement and Valuation of Travel Time Variability Due to Incidents on Freeways." Journal of Transportation Statistics, Vol. 2, No. 2 (December 1999). Accessible via www.bts.gov/jts/V2N2/vol2_n2⊤c.html.
5. Cambridge Systematics Inc. et al. Providing a Highway System with Reliable Travel Times. NCHRP 20-58(3) Final Report, Transportation Research Board, September 2003. Accessible via trb.org/publications/ f-shrp/f-shrp_webdoc_3.pdf.