USING SEPARATE LINKS FOR DIAMOND AND MIXED-TRAFFIC LANES UNDER SCOOT
In order to provide preferential treatment to high-occupancy vehicles HOV lanes have been designated along a number of major arterial roadways within Toronto. In a separate initiative, the Toronto Transportation Department has installed traffic adaptive signal control (in the form of SCOOT) at well over 200 signalized intersections within the same metropolitan area. As a result, SCOOT and HOV lanes currently coexist along many of the same roadways. Clearly, the traffic flow characteristics of HOV lanes are quite distinct from those of the adjacent mixed traffic lanes. It might be possible to account for these differences within the SCOOT optimization process, thereby providing improved overall signal operation, by configuring these HOV lanes and the adjacent mixed traffic lanes as separate SCOOT links (rather than configuring them as a single SCOOT link as is the existing practice). Based upon detailed surveys within a limited test area, this paper explores the feasibility and potential benefits of this approach
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Supplemental Notes:
- Publication Date: 1998 Institute of Transportation Engineers, Washington DC
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Corporate Authors:
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System, 3135 TAMU
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,Computran Systems Corporation
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,California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Portland, OR United States 97207-0751University of Waterloo
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Washington, DC United States 20590Sverdrup Civil, Incorporated
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St. Louis, MO United States 63101IBI Group, Canada
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,Florida Department of Transportation
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Authors:
- Conrad, Mark
- Le, Hao
- Greenough, John
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1998
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 13 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Adaptive control; High occupancy vehicle lanes; Traffic control; Traffic signals
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00783124
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
- Files: PATH, USDOT, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Feb 16 2000 12:00AM