BAY AREA FREEWAY OPERATIONS STUDY-FINAL REPORT; ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES FOR EVALUATING FREEWAY IMPROVEMENTS- PART II OF III - ON THE SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE

THIS REPORT DOCUMENTS PROCEDURES DEVELOPED AND RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE EVALUATION OF VARIOUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC FLOW CONDITIONS ON THE EASTBOUND SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE. A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE MORE SIGNIFICANT RESULTS IS PRESENTED IN CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III CONTAINS BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF THE VARIOUS STUDIES WHICH WERE CONDUCTED TO ACCUMULATE NECESSARY DATA. THE ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES EMPLOYED TO ANALYZE THESE DATA ARE DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER IV. A FEASIBLE SUBSET OF IMPROVEMENT PLANS WAS SELECTED FROM THE SET OF ALL POSSIBLE PLANS, AND ONLY THOSE CHOSEN WERE INVESTIGATED FURTHER. CHAPTER V CONTAINS A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE PLANS CHOSEN, AND THE RESULTS OF PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE EFFECT OF THESE PLANS ARE PRESENTED IN CHAPTER VI. DETAILED QUATITA- TIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCUSSIONS OF EACH PLAN EVALUATED ARE CONTAINED IN CHAPTER VII. SEVERAL APPENDICES CONTAIN TECHNICAL DETAILS. /FHWA/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract No 13945-13280
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering
  Berkeley, CA  United States 

  California Division of Highways

  Bridge Department
  Sacramento, CA  United States  05914
• Authors:
  • Allen, B L
  • May, A D
• Publication Date: 1970-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 98 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freeway operations; Traffic flow
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225022
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 7 1973 12:00AM