Spatially Referenced Probe Data Performance Measures for Infrastructure Investment Decision Makers

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, the recently enacted highway bill, challenges transportation professionals to develop a comprehensive set of performance measures for managing most aspects of the transportation system. Historically, performance metrics have been created on an agency-by-agency basis with little consistency between data collection frequency and quality. In recent years, crowdsourced data have become a high-fidelity data source that could be used to develop spatially oriented performance measures that could scale nationwide. This paper summarizes the rapidly evolving literature on probe vehicle data and proposes a series of performance measures to characterize the temporal and spatial aspects of congestion in a graphical manner that decision makers may use to evaluate the impact of past investments and prioritize future investments. The I-80–I-94 corridor in northwest Indiana, near Chicago, Illinois, is used to present the methodologies. The paper concludes with a discussion of how these techniques can be extended on a national scale to characterize corridors such as I-80 from New York to California.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.3141/2420-04
• Summary URL:
  • http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Spatially+Referenced+Probe+Data+Performance+Measures+for+Infrastructure+Investment+Decision+Makers&author=S.+Remias&author=T.+Brennan&author=C.+Day&author=H.+Summers&author=D.+Horton&author=E.+Cox&author=D.+Bullock&publication_year=2014
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• Authors:
  • Remias, Stephen M
  • Brennan, Thomas M
  • Day, Christopher
  • Summers, Hayley T
  • Horton, Deborah K
  • Cox, Edward D
  • Bullock, Darcy M
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 33–44
• Monograph Title: Performance Measurement and Strategic Management
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2420
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Methodology; Performance measurement; Probe vehicles; Traffic congestion; Traffic data; Visualization
• Identifier Terms: Interstate 80; Interstate 94; Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01518180
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309295086
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-1062
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 12 2014 9:33AM