Planning

Bay Area Simulation and Ramp Metering Study - Year 2 Report

Gardes, Yonnel
Kim, Amy
May, Dolf
2003

As part of the California PATH program, the Paramics microscopic traffic simulation model was evaluated through a pilot application to the I-680 freeway corridor, one of the most highly congested facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The main objective of the project was to test the capability of the model to serve as a tool for evaluating alternative transportation planning and traffic management scenarios. HOV lanes were investigated first on a "simple" network, and later on the existing I-680 corridor. An Application Programming Interface (API) "plugin" designed by Quadstone, which...

Towards A Fault Tolerant AHS Design Part II: Design And Verification Of Communication Protocols

Godbole, D. N.
Lygeros, J.
Singh, E.
Deshpande, A.
Lindsey, A. E.
1996

This report presents an evaluation of the Phase II Smart Card Demonstration Project, the goal of which is to develop a transit fare payment system for commercialization that will improve transit efficiency and effectiveness. The major focus of the project is the testing of selected technologies in revenue service. Two types of fare payment cards were selected: a contactless radio frequency (RF) card and a contact card. The advanced fare payment system includes passenger transaction units installed on buses and the associated control and communications system. The evaluation covers the...

Institutional Issues and Arrangements in Interoperable Transit Smart Card Systems: A Review of the Literature on California, United States, and International Systems

Yoh, Allison C., PhD
Iseki, Hiroyuki
Taylor, Brian D.
King, David A.
2006

Many public transit agencies in California have implemented or are in the process of implementing smart card fare collection systems. Smart cards can provide riders with a convenient fare medium that eliminates the need for exact change, and offers riders one fare card that can be used across multiple modes, operators, and even different jurisdictions. For transit operators, smart cards can minimize fare fraud and pilfering, reduce operating and maintenance costs, speed up boarding times, and enhance data collection for planning purposes. One important objective of transportation planning...

TravInfo Evaluation (Technology Element) Traveler Information Center (TIC) Study: Operator Interface Component-Phase IV: Institutional Analysis

Miller, Mark
Loukakos, Dimitri
1998

TravInfo is a Field Operational Test of advanced traveler information systems for the San Francisco Bay Area, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The project involves a public/private partnership which seeks to compile, integrate and broadly disseminate timely and accurate multi-modal traveler information through commercial products and services. The public sector component centers on the Traveler Information Center (TIC), which collects and integrates both static and dynamic traveler information. The TIC began operations in September 1996 and operates as an FOT through...

Evaluation of the Anaheim Advanced Traffic Control System Field Operational Test: Introduction and Task A: Evaluation of SCOOT Performance

Moore, James E., II
Jayakrishnan, R.
McNally, M. G.
MacCarley, C. Arthur
1999

This report provides an overview of the federally-sponsored Anaheim Advanced Traffic Control System Field Operations Test, and of the technical issues associated with the evaluation of SCOOT performance during this test. The primary FOT objective was the implementation and performance evaluation of adaptive traffic signal control technologies including an existing second generation approach, SCOOT, and a 1.5 generation control (1.5GC) approach under development. Also selected for implementation was a video traffic detection system (VTDS). The SCOOT evaluation was defined relative to...

SmartBRT: A Set of Planning, Analysis and Evaluation Tools for Bus Rapid Transit: Final Report Year 1 of 2

Balvanyos, Tunde
Bethel, Wes
Gardes, Yonnel
Kourjanskaia, Natalia
Liu, Hongchao
Misener, Jim
Sousa, Joao
Vander Werf, Joel
Wei, Wenbin
2003

We report Year 1 results from a two-year project to develop a computer simulation, evaluation and visualization "toolbox", SmartBRT, to describe and evaluate operational aspects of bus rapid transit (BRT) concepts in order to aid decision-making. In conceiving and developing SmartBRT, we have maintained two objectives: 1. To provide FTA, Caltrans and local decision-makers with a rigorous and defensible, yet intuitive BRT operation evaluation method along with a general purpose BRT simulator/communication tool; and 2. To provide example applications of SmartBRT to actual BRT concepts and to...

Transportation Models in the Policy-Making Process: Uses, Misuses, and Lessons for the Future

Brinkman, Anthony
Goldman, Todd
1998

Panel 1. This session set the stage for the conference by examining some of the overarching issues in transportation modeling. Martin Wachs spoke about the promise and limitation of models from an ethical frame of reference. Genevieve Giuliano followed with an examination of how some of the changes underway in society may limit the ability to produce useful transportation forecasts. Finally, Larry Dahms commented from the perspective of an agency that operates within the policy-making process. Panel 2. The aim of this session was to generate a discussion of ways to make better use of...

A Decision-Oriented Framework for Evaluating Deployment Strategies for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Tsao, Jacob H.-S.
1999

Because Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) R&D is performed for the ultimate deployment in the real world, deployment issues may limit design options for ITS concepts and technologies and, hence, can be viewed as constraints on ITS R&D. Therefore, ITS deployment issues must be studied at the outset of the R&D process. This paper develops a framework to help recognize and organize such issues. The findings can be used by ITS researchers in developing deployable ITS concepts and technologies and by ITS promoters in deploying ITS technologies having been...

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

Miller, Mark A.
Skabardonis, Alexander
2010

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...

Multiple ICM Management: Task ID 3706 (65A0764), Final Report

Patire, Anthony PhD
Dion, Francis PhD
2022

In order to improve corridor network operations, the vision of integrated corridor management (ICM) is to identify corridor managers who serve as experts for individual corridors, and to enable these managers to oversee corridor operations, to coordinate with partner agencies, and to improve collaborative, multiagency planning. While it makes sense to manage freeways, arterials, and transit in a coordinated way within a corridor, it is less clear how multiple corridors interact with each other, and how incidents and response plans along one corridor impacts a nearby corridor or multiple...