INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF MAINTENANCE AND TRAFFIC

This project developed a customized version of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) QuickZone program to help the state highway administration in planning maintenance activities and managing traffic around highway work zones as efficiently and safely as possible. This study focused on estimating the traffic disruption and safety costs of particular work zone configurations and on using those results to determine how road segments should be divided into work zones on rural two-lane roads and rural four-lane divided roads. A second phase of this project is expected to begin in the Fall of 2002. Phase two will make improvements to the analysis method and software. The current models will be extended to analyze six and eight lane rural roads as well as freeways with four, six, and eight lanes.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Maryland, College Park

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  College Park, MD  United States  20742

  Maryland Department of Transportation

  State Highway Administration, 707 N Calvert Street
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21202
• Authors:
  • Chen, Pan
  • Kim, Eungcheol
  • Schonfeld, P
• Publication Date: 2002-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 81 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Divided highways; Four lane highways; Freeways; Highway maintenance; Highway traffic control; Planning; Rural highways; Software; State highway departments; Traffic models; Traffic safety; Two lane highways; Work zone safety; Work zone traffic control; Work zones
• Identifier Terms: QuickZone (Computer program); U.S. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00960449
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MD-02-SP107B45,, Final Report
• Contract Numbers: SP107B45
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 15 2003 12:00AM