EFFECTIVENESS OF IVHS ELEMENTS ON FREEWAY/ARTERIAL CAPACITY
In recent years, Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) have been touted as promising solutions for minimizing the problems of urban traffic congestion. Based on existing case studies, this paper presents the effectiveness of commonly used IVHS elements in quantitative terms. The paper is presented in three sections. Section one discusses the concepts of urban traffic congestion. Section two discusses solution concepts using IVHS elements. Section three presents the effectiveness of IVHS elements.
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Corporate Authors:
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Washington, DC United States -
Authors:
- Sarakki, V
- Kerr, J
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Conference:
- Compendium of Technical Papers, 64th ITE Annual Meeting
- Location: Dallas, Texas
- Date: 1994-10-16 to 1994-10-19
- Publication Date: 1994
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 303-307
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Freeways; Highway capacity; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow; Urban areas; Urban highways
- Old TRIS Terms: Freeway capacity
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I70: Traffic and Transport;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00716671
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 26 1996 12:00AM