Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Philadelphia Metropolitan Region: Planning for Congestion Management and Tracking Progress

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission uses a systematic process for managing traffic congestion and monitoring transportation system performance in the Philadelphia metropolitan region. Guided by an advisory team of stakeholders, the agency identifies congested corridors and sub-corridors in the region. It then determines the most appropriate multimodal strategies available to mitigate congestion and enhance mobility of people and goods. The agency tracks its progress in meeting its long-range goals through performance indicators, which it uses to evaluate what is working well in terms of minimizing congestion as well as to identify improvements the agency can make. Planned future enhancements to its process include increased focus on systems management and operations to better measure reliability, and strengthening its use of performance measures.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop09044/fhwahop09044.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 2009-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 5p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Congestion management systems; Monitoring; Multimodal transportation; Tracking systems; Traffic congestion; Traffic forecasting; Traffic surveillance; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01139749
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HOP-09-044
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 18 2009 7:07AM