Planning

Although proponents have emphasized new urbanism’s ability to reduce automobile dependence, increase walking, and improve the health of its residents, there is a paucity of research to support these claims. The authors surveyed residents of 34 neighborhoods in 12 U.S. states to examine whether the travel behavior and physical activity of new urbanist neighborhood residents differed from their conventional suburban counterparts. They used a matched-pair design in which each new urbanist neighborhood was matched with a conventional suburban neighborhood in the same municipality....

This report presents the Conceptual Design Plan for evaluating the effectiveness of the Smart Corridor Demonstration Project. The specific objectives of this report are to: 1) develop a conceptual structure for the Smart Corridor evaluation, 2) define evaluation data requirements and collection procedures, and 3) select and/or develop data reduction and data analysis methodologies. Overall, the Smart Corridor is designed to obtain improved utilization of existing roadway facilities, both freeway and arterial, through the use of Advanced Traveler Information Systems ( ATIS) and Advanced...

This project further adapt and enhance the previous research of relevance to event-based Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) and implement the algorithms for traffic management in Anaheim. This study is also answering some basic questions in ATIS implementation associated with routing strategies, driver’s compliance and network performance. This research develops algorithms for static and dynamic optimal Changeable Message Signs (CMS). The optimized CMS schemes are based on performance evaluations using a traffic simulation-based evaluation model, DYNASMART (Dynamic Network...

Busways have been reported to carry up to 28,000 passengers per hour per direction (pphpd). However, recent passenger counts indicate that the exclusive busway in Bogotá, Colombia, has a flow of more than 35,000 pphpd. This passenger flow is achieved despite poor operating conditions and a general lack of maintenance without a city busway management and operation authority. Consequently, there is little police control, no systems management, and scarce information for users. These conditions should affect passenger flow negatively, but the Bogotá busway carries more passengers than...