PREDICTION OF CONGESTION DUE TO ROAD WORKS ON FREEWAYS

This paper describes a new procedure for predicting congestion resulting from road construction on freeways. A macroscopic model is used to calculate the congestion process, based on estimating the traffic demand and the capacity of long term construction sites and short term maintenance sites. Focus is on examining the various factors that influence the capacity of congestion of maintenance sites. The procedure makes it possible to estimate queue length and duration as well as resulting time delays.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 2001. IEEE Service Center, Piscataway NJ
• Corporate Authors:

  Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

  Machtfinger Strasse 10, Postfach 100079
  8000 Munich,   Germany 

  Texas A&M University, College Station

  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3123

  National Science Foundation

  1800 G Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20550

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Instituto de Ingenieria

  ,    

  University of California, Berkeley

  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-1740

  DaimlerChrysler Forschungszentrum in Ulm

  ,    

  Technische Universitat Munchen. Fachgebiet Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrsplanung

  ,    

  University of California, Irvine

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  4000 Anteater Instruction and Research Building
  Irvine, CA  United States  92697

  Nanyang Technological University

  Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems
  Singapore,   Singapore 
• Authors:
  • Ober-Sundermeier, Anja
  • Zackor, Heinz
• Conference:
  • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (2001 : Oakland Calif.). 2001 IEEE intelligent transportation systems proceedings
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 240-244

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Traffic congestion; Work zone safety
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00963570
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Oct 2 2003 12:00AM