Bibliography


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Assessing Highway Tolling and Pricing Options and Impacts


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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 722: Assessing Highway Tolling and Pricing Options and Impacts provides state departments of transportation (DOTs) and other transportation agencies with a decision-making framework and analytical tools that describe likely impacts on revenue generation and system performance resulting from instituting or modifying user-based fees or tolling on segments of their highway system. Volume 2: Travel Demand Forecasting Tools provides an in-depth examination of the various analytical tools for direct or adapted use that are available to help develop the forecasts of potential revenue, transportation demand, and congestion and system performance based on tolling or pricing changes. Volume 1: Decision-Making Framework includes information on a decision-making framework that may be applied to a variety of scenarios in order to understand the potential impacts of tolling and pricing on the performance of the transportation system, and on the potential to generate revenue to pay for system improvements"--Publication information.




Capacity and Operational Effects of Midblock Left-turn Lanes


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The objective of this research project was to develop a methodology for evaluating alternative midblock left-turn treatments on urban and suburban arterials. The methodology had to be applicable to three common midblock left-turn treatments: the raised-curb median, the flush median with two-way left-turn lane (TWLTL) delineation, and the undivided cross section. The methodology developed for this research focuses on the evaluation of midblock street segments on urban and suburban arterials. The basis for NCHRP Report 395.




Comparative Analysis of Traffic Assignment Techniques with Actual Highway Use


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Methods in use to forecast and assign traffic in planning of major highway facilities are reviewed. Traffic assignments were computed based on both travel time and distance parameters using various diversion curves. Network traffic assignment methods were reviewed with regard to highway capacity restraint functions. These results were compared with the actual travel data. an analysis is presented of errors related to origin-destination input with regard to individual links of the network. Further analysis was conducted to relate link assignments to changes in the origin-destination patterns and to network changes.