PUTTING TRAVELERS IN THE KNOW

Providing motorists with real-time traveler information is a key way that road managers can help motorists deal with the growing traffic congestion on the Nation's highways. In this article, the authors explore how access to up-to-the-minute information about traffic incidents, travel times along major corridors, and route-specific weather conditions can help motorists make more informed decisions and have more control over their trips. The authors discuss stress reduction, mobility benefits, collecting the necessary real-time data, how to disseminate real-time data to motorists, the use of online travel information, how individual state Departments of Transportation are handling these concerns, and future developments anticipated in this area.

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Federal Highway Administration

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Authors:
- Meehan, B
- Rupert, B
Publication Date: 2004-11

Language

English

Media Info

Features: Figures; Photos;
Pagination: p. 38-43
Serial:
- Public Roads
- Volume: 68
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
- ISSN: 0033-3735
- Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
Publication flags:
Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Crash avoidance systems; Nonrecurrent congestion; Real time information; State departments of transportation; Stress (Psychology); Technological innovations; Traffic crashes; Transportation operations; Variable message signs; Weather conditions
Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Highway Administration
Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00986505
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
Created Date: Feb 14 2005 12:00AM