San Diego I-15 Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) System: Stage II (Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation)

This report describes the Stage II work –Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation(AMS) – to date of the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) federally-sponsored Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Program for the I-15 Corridor in San Diego County, California, between State Route 163in the city of San Diego and State Route 78 in the city of Escondido. Stage II of the federal ICM Program involves performing the analysis, modeling, and simulation work for the I-15 corridor in San Diego County. Major tasks in Stage II consist of data collection, tools and software support, models validation and calibration, alternatives analysis, and performance measurement assessment. An Experimental Plan was developed by the Contractor AMS Team (Cambridge Systematics, Inc.) during the course of Stage II and serves as a guidebook to follow throughout the course of Stage II work covering areas such as the AMS methodology, analysis scenarios and ICMS strategies, performance measures, and model calibration and validation.