Integrated Corridor Management Systems: A Major ITS Initiative

Traveling within a busy city can be frustrating and time-consuming. Traffic congestion continues to grow, with the greatest concentration of congestion along the principal routes in major metropolitan areas. These “critical corridors” that link activity centers (e.g., business centers, sports arenas, and shopping areas) with residential areas carry the highest volumes of people and goods. Despite an array of transportation management tools, integrated corridor management has not naturally emerged. Collaboration between planning and operations communities and integration of travel management tools could help shift travel demands between facilities and modes, thus reducing delays and increasing reliability and predictability of travel. Unused corridor capacity often exists on parallel routes, on the non-peak direction on freeways and arteries, within single-occupant vehicles, and in transit vehicles. Shifts in travel demand to unused capacity can be accomplished by delivering real time travel data through in-vehicle devices, changeable message signs, and 511 services, as well as through various traffic and transit management strategies, including adaptive traffic signal and ramp metering systems. This initiative will demonstrate how ITS technologies can efficiently and proactively manage the movement of people and goods in major transportation corridors in large cities. A planned model deployment will show how proven and promising ITS technologies, working together, can improve corridor mobility and productivity.

• Record URL:
  https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/27000/27300/27316/ITS_ICMS.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  ITS Joint Program Office
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Harding, John
  • Freitas, Mike
• Publication Date: 2005-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: 1p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Cooperation; Highway corridors; Intelligent transportation systems; Management; Technology transfer; Transportation corridors; Transportation planning; Urban travel
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01108608
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-JPO-05-022, ITS EDL 14097
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 20 2008 9:06AM