Evaluation of Work Zone Strategies and User Delay Costs Associated with Strategies and Treatments

The purpose of this paper is to summarize a recent research project undertaken in partnership with the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo and provide recommended practices and prediction models to improve mobility, safety and balance between the economic impacts between key parties. There are three important issues presented in this paper, including mobility, safety and economics, which must be considered in the engineering of highway work zones. These competing issues are important to the key parties involved in highway construction, which include the owner, the transportation agency, hired contractor, consultants and the traveling public. To effectively assess these issues, this research is divided into four modules. Module One focuses on developing work zone strategies appropriate for the construction being performed, Module Two investigates methods of improving safety within work zones, Module Three develops a prediction model for user delay cost and Module Four is a multi-variant decision model to assist transport agencies in incorporating an appropriate amount of user delay cost for a given facility type.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

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• Authors:
  • Huen, Ken
  • Ren, Sabrina
  • Tighe, Susan Louise
  • McCabe, Brenda
• Conference:
  • Annual Conference & Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada, 2006. Congres et exposition annuels de l'Association des transport du Canada, 2006.
  • Location: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island , Canada
  • Date: 2006-9-17 to 2006-9-20
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 23p
• Monograph Title: Transportation without Boundaries

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Mobility; Performance measurement; Road construction; Transportation departments; Work zone safety; Work zone traffic control; Work zones
• Uncontrolled Terms: Decision model; Mobility management; User delay costs
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01038668
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781551872250
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 29 2006 11:07AM