Optimally Measuring and Reporting Arterial Performance Using Different Detection Networks

Arterial performance measurement is of growing interest to agencies, as they seek to quantify the return on investment for projects, provide enhanced information to travelers, and better integrate arterial operations into multi-modal network management practices. Quality performance measurement requires agencies to collect data from intelligent transportation systems (ITS) infrastructure, archive it, and compute meaningful and actionable metrics from it. This paper takes a case study approach to illustrate how an arterial performance measurement software system can programmatically compute and report consistent performance measures for different detection types, in a way that is scalable to different network sizes. It is based on deployments of Berkeley Transportation Systems, Incorporated's Arterial Performance Measurement System (A-PeMS) at three sites that differ in sensor type, sensor placement, and deployment scale. The paper also details the unique computational and visualization approaches taken to capitalize on the performance measurement potential of each site’s detection capabilities.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Barkley, Tiffany
  • Hranac, Rob
  • Ciccarelli, Armand
• Conference:
  • 18th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Orlando Florida, United States
  • Date: 2011-10-16 to 2011-10-20
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: 18th ITS World Congress, Orlando, 2011. Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Data collection; Intelligent transportation systems; Multimodal transportation; Performance measurement; Return on investment; Traveler information and communication systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01447777
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 2012 4:58PM