Designing for Transportation Management and Operations: A Primer
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop13013/index.htm
Primer: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
FHWA has posted a primer on how to consider management and operations as part transportation project design and development, what is termed designing for operations. Effectively designing for operations involves the development and application of design policies, procedures, and strategies that support transportation management and operations. This primer describes tools or institutional approaches to assist transportation agencies in considering operations in their design procedures as well as pointing out some specific design considerations for various operations strategies.
Road Accident Investigation Guidelines for Road Engineers
http://www.piarc.org/en/order-library/19593-en-Road%20accident
%20investigation%20guidelines%20for%20road%20engineers.htm
Technical Guidelines: World Road Association (PIARC)
The purpose of Road Accident Investigation (RAI) is to help road engineers detect road infrastructure deficiencies that influence an accident. The report describes the accident data needed, how the location of crashes should be reported and how accident data should be assessed. Focus is placed on collision diagrams and on their analysis. A number of examples are presented in the appendices to illustrate the different situations. Full report can be downloaded after free registration at the PIARC site.
Comprehensive Highway Corridor Planning with Sustainability Indicators
http://www.roads.maryland.gov/OPR_Research/MD-13-SP109B4Q-Comprehensive-Highway-Corridor-Planning-with-Sustainability-Indicators_Report.pdf
Research Report: Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA)
The research project developed a Model of Sustainability and Integrated Corridors (MOSAIC) to assist SHA in selecting the most sustainable corridor improvement option for its Highway Needs Inventory and long range planning processes. The model has the capability to quantify sustainability indicators for a wide range of multimodal corridor improvement options, including high occupancy vehicle lanes, high occupancy toll lanes, bus rapid transit/bus-only lanes, light rail transit, truck-only lanes, express toll lanes, and road diet (i.e. lane removal).
NOYS Announces May is Global Youth Traffic Safety Month
http://www.noys.org/global_youth_traffic_safety_month.aspx?utm_
source=April+16,+2013&utm_campaign=Teen+traffic+safety,+
NOYS,+teen+video+awards,+distracted+driving,+teen+distracted+
driving+summit,+Because+i+Care...,+Act+Out+Loud,+Global+Youth+
Traffic+Safety+Month,+Long+Short+Walk&utm_medium=email
Website: National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS)
The NOYS website describes all of the events planned to make the 2013 Global Youth Traffic Safety Month a success.
ITDP Celebrates Cleveland's HealthLine as Best Practice for US BRT
http://www.itdp.org/news/itdp-celebrates-clevelands-healthline-as-best-practice-for-us-brt
News Release: Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP)
ITDP announced the presentation of an award to the Cleveland HealthLine, which ITDP ranked as the highest-quality BRT corridor in the US and Canada. The BRT Standard, a best-practice guide for bus rapid transit systems that ITDP released in March, ranked the best quality BRTs from around the world as gold, silver, bronze, or basic BRT. RTA's HealthLine achieved silver status, the only one among seven in the United States to do so. A link to The BRT Standard 2013 follows:
http://www.itdp.org/microsites/the-brt-standard-2013/
Innovation in Urban Mobility - Policy Making and Planning
http://www.transport-research.info/Upload/Documents/201304/20130417_132707_15935_PB03ENWEB.pdf
Policy Brochure: European Union and Transport Research & Innovation Portal (TRIP)
Every year, TRIP issues four Policy Brochures on the major transport policy priorities set by the European Union. The brochures aim to share important information about the critical role transport research plays in policy making, planning and development in the transport and mobility sector. The Urban Mobility brochure highlights the contribution of research in delivering innovative solutions for sustainable and integrated urban transport systems that support economic prosperity and social cohesion in Europe.
Collaborating to Move Transportation Performance Management
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/focus/13apr/13apr01.cfm
News Brief: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
THE FHWA publication FOCUS includes an article describing the MAP-21 initiative to establish a performance- and outcome-based approach called transportation performance management (TPM). MAP-21 established national goals for the Federal-aid highway program in seven areas: safety, infrastructure condition, congestion reduction, system reliability, freight movement and economic vitality, environmental sustainability, and reduced project delivery delays. FHWA intends to define measures to assess performance or condition in a series of Notices of Proposed Rulemakings (NPRM).
TfL Revamps Traffic Modelling to Reflect Cyclists' Actual Behaviour
http://www.transportxtra.com/magazines/local_transport_today/news/?id=34373
News Report: TransportExtra
Transport for London (TfL) is refining its traffic modelling to improve the representation of bicyclist and pedestrian behavior. The TfL research will document bicyclist behavior as they discharge from traffic signals and travel between signals. The research will also look at the impact bicyclists have on general traffic discharge where they comprise a high proportion of road users. The TfL research is being complemented by ongoing TRL research on pedestrian behavior at traffic signals.
SMART-Signal Phase II: Arterial Offset Optimization Using Archived High-Resolution Traffic Signal Data
http://www.its.umn.edu/Publications/ResearchReports/pdfdownload.pl?id=2288
Research Report: University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
Typical offset optimization for coordinated traffic signals is based on average travel times between intersections and average traffic volumes at each intersection, without consideration of the stochastic nature of field traffic. With the use of archived high-resolution traffic signal data, the research project developed a data-driven arterial offset optimization model that addresses two common issues with vehicle-actuated signal coordination: the early return to green and the uncertain intersection queue length. Field tests demonstrate the model can reduce travel delay for the coordinated direction significantly without compromising the performance of the opposite approach.
2012 Urban Congestion Trends - Operations: The Key to Reliable Travel
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop13016/fhwahop13016.pdf
Fact Sheet: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
The FHWA document presents the latest annual trends in hours spent in congestion, changes in the travel time index, and changes in the planning time index. The fact sheet explains how operations measures can be used to solve congestion issues and presents several examples of success stories in operational improvements.
Managing Traffic Congestion
http://www.audit.vic.gov.au/reports_and_publications/latest_reports/2012-13/20130417-traffic-congestion.aspx
Audit Report: Victorian Auditor-General
The report assesses whether traffic congestion is being effectively managed in Victoria (Australia). It examines how well key institutional arrangements support strategic planning, cross-government coordination for and management of traffic congestion, and the effectiveness of key strategies and initiatives for managing congestion. The report finds that recent improvements in planning for road use, land use and public transport have significantly assisted with alleviating road congestion and improving accessibility and productivity. But the report concludes that congestion management potential can be fully realized only with coordinated statewide strategies that include clearly defined agency responsibilities and accountabilities for congestion and travel demand management.
