Active Traffic Management: The Next Step in Congestion Management

The combination of continued travel growth and budget constraints makes it difficult for transportation agencies to provide sufficient roadway capacity in major metropolitan areas. The Federal Highway Administration, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and National Cooperative Highway Research Program sponsored a scanning study to examine congestion management programs and policies in Europe. The scan team observed that transportation agencies in Denmark, England, Germany, and the Netherlands, through the deployment of congestion management strategies, are able to optimize the investment in infrastructure to meet drivers’ needs. Strategies include speed harmonization, temporary shoulder use, and dynamic signing and rerouting. The team’s recommendations for U.S. implementation include promoting active traffic management to optimize existing infrastructure during recurrent and nonrecurrent congestion, emphasizing customer orientation, focusing on trip reliability, providing consistent messages to roadway users, and making operations a priority in planning, programming, and funding processes.

• Record URL:
  http://international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl07012/index.cfm
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16441
• Corporate Authors:

  American Trade Initiatives

  P.O. Box 8228
  Alexandria, VA  United States  22306-8228

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of International Programs, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Mirshahi, Mohammad
  • Obenberger, Jon T
  • Fuhs, Charles A
  • Howard, Charles E
  • Krammes, Raymond A
  • Kuhn, Beverly T
  • Mayhew, Robin M
  • Moore, Margaret A
  • Sahebjam, Khani
  • Stone, Craig J
  • Yung, Jessie L
• Publication Date: 2007-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Glossary; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 84p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Customer service; Financing; Highway operations; Highway traffic control; Programming (Planning); Recommendations; Road shoulders; Speed control; Standardization; Strategic planning; Study tours; Traffic congestion; Traffic mitigation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Rerouting; Trip reliability
• Geographic Terms: Denmark; England; Europe; Germany; Netherlands
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Research; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01055095
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-PL-07-012
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-99-C-005
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 17 2007 3:48PM