Optimization of Renewal-Based Project Scheduling in an Urban Network

In this paper the authors develop a mathematical decision model and solution algorithm to evaluate the impact of sequencing work-zones before construction starts at the corridor/network level. The model quantitatively measures the traffic impact/delay caused by work-zones for the entire construction period, and specially consider the daytime/nighttime construction strategies comprising of both user and agency costs, precedence, etc. In the algorithmic approach, they use a heuristic to measure user cost by examining combinations of user equilibrium (UE) assignments and use an approximation approach to approximate the UE travel time. Such an approach enables the evaluation of user cost at the corridor/network level, meanwhile maintaining computational tractability. A small hypothetical numerical example is conducted with fairly good computational performance.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB55 Work Zone Traffic Control
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Zheng, Hong
  • Cai, Chengdong
  • Nava, Eric Joseph
  • Dixit, Vinayak V
  • Chiu, Yi-Chang
  • Radwan, Essam
  • Ismart, Dane
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
• Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 20p
• Monograph Title: TRB 91st Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction scheduling; Mathematical models; Optimization; Seasons; Traffic delays; Traffic equilibrium; Travel time; Work zones
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; I60: Maintenance; I70: Traffic and Transport; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01371106
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 12-4527
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 25 2012 9:31AM