TRAFFIC FORECASTING AS IF INTERSECTION CONTROL MATTERS (AND VICE VERSA)
Many improvements have been made in the past few years in measuring vehicle capacity and delay on arterial streets and intersections. These techniques are well known within both the transportation planning and traffic engineering communities. However, most planners continue to use traffic forecasting techniques concerning capacity and travel time that they know to be inaccurate, due to their being wedded to functionally obsolete software programs. Several new traffic forecasting models have been developed recently that take into account up-to-date research in highway capacity, and the planning staff in the Cedar Rapids metro area has implemented one of these new modeling methods for the latest update to the metropolitan transportation plan. Traffic forecasts are now more realistic given traffic control options and limitations and more useful in developing a financially feasible transportation plan.
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Corporate Authors:
Center for Transportation Research and Education
2711 South Loop Drive, Suite 4700
Ames, IA United States 50010-8664Iowa Department of Transportation
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Authors:
- Granato, S
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Conference:
- 1996 Semisesquicentennial Transportation Conference Proceedings.
- Location: Ames, Iowa
- Date: 1996-5-13 to 1996-5-14
- Publication Date: 1996
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 65-66
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Highway capacity; Intersections; Traffic forecasting; Traffic models; Vehicle capacity
- Geographic Terms: Cedar Rapids (Iowa); Iowa
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00721846
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0965231003
- Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jun 5 1996 12:00AM