Relevance of Travel Time Reliability Indicators: A Managed Lanes Case Study

Managed lanes operations refer to multiple strategies for recurring congestion control by increasing the road capacity or adapting its configuration to the demand level. As a result, the evaluation of their impacts usually focuses on congestion or safety-related indicators. However, with the growing prosperity, consumers demand higher quality transport services, for which reliable transport networks are central. This paper is focused on the travel time reliability assessment of a managed lane experience from a French motorway. The paper shows results from the field test experience of the hard shoulder dynamic use on the A4-A86 motorway in the east of Paris. Further to the reliability assessment, the paper focuses on the reliability indicators. It particularly shows the weakness of the skew of the distribution of travel time indicator.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.763
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812042255
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/18770428
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Bhouri, Neïla
  • Aron, Maurice
  • Kauppila, Jari
• Conference:
  • 15th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2012-9-10 to 2012-9-13
• Publication Date: 2012-10-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 450-459
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 54
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Freeways; Managed lanes; Paved shoulders; Reliability; Scheduling; Skewed distributions; Traffic congestion; Travel time
• Geographic Terms: Paris (France)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01487380
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 18 2013 1:57PM