Author: Patrick T. McCoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Alternative Driver Information to Alleviate Work-zone-related Delays
Author: Patrick T. McCoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Methods and procedures to reduce motorist delays in European work zones
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428953396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Improving Night Work Zone Traffic Control
Author: Benjamin H. CottrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile driving at night
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The objective of this study was to examine traffic control for night work zones from the perspective of both agencies and motorists. This was accomplished by investigating practices of state departments of transportation, identifying the problems associated with traffic control for night work zones, and identifying potential strategies to resolve them. Reduced visibility, driver impairment or inattention, inadequate lighting, and difficulty in maintaining traffic control devices are common problems identified with night work zones based on surveys of state departments of transportation and residencies within the Virginia Department of Transportation. Having police present, making workers more visible, using drums in the taper, maintaining traffic control devices, and providing adequate lighting were common solutions. Based on the review of work zones, traffic control for night work zones is generally adequate. Common problem areas were properly establishing work zones based in accordance with the Virginia Work Area Protection Manual, maintaining the traffic control devices, and properly aiming and aligning lighting to avoid glare. Although there is a perception that night work zones are less safe than daytime work zones, evidence to substantiate this perception, such as higher accident rates, was not available because of a lack of accurate traffic exposure data. Based on a limited amount of data, there was no evidence of the perceived higher speeds at night.
Efficient Transportation and Pavement Systems: Characterization, Mechanisms, Simulation, and Modeling
Author: Imad L. Al-QadiPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203881206
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Internationally, significant attention is given to transport sustainability including planning, design, construction, evaluation, safety and durability of the road system. The 4th International Gulf Conference on Roads: Efficient Transportation and Pavement Systems - Characterization, Mechanisms, Simulation, and Modeling, hosted by the University o
Evaluating Alternative Operations Strategies to Improve Travel Time Reliability
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309273706
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This report from the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), which is administered by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, sets out requirements for travel time reliability within a performance-based planning process. The research includes an effort to determine the economic value of improvements in travel time reliability by applying options theory from the financial sector. The report includes two succinct tables that describe requirements for person and freight trips for reliable transport, as well as a forecast of the year 2030 under alternative assumptions that may influence travel time reliability.
Impact of Trucks on Arterial LOS and Freeway Work Zone Capacity
Author: Intelligent Transportation Systems in Work Zones
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intelligent transportation systems
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Transportation Research Record
Author: Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Author: Nicholas D. AntonucciPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 030908847X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Part I
Author: Neville StantonPublisher: AHFE International (USA)
ISBN: 149512097X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
Human Factors and Ergonomics have made a considerable contribution to the research, design, development, operation and analysis of transportation systems which includes road and rail vehicles and their complementary infrastructure, aviation and maritime transportation. This book presents recent advances in the Human Factors aspects of Transportation. These advances include accident analysis, automation of vehicles, comfort, distraction of drivers (understanding of distraction and how to avoid it), environmental concerns, in-vehicle systems design, intelligent transport systems, methodological developments, new systems and technology, observational and case studies, safety, situation awareness, skill development and training, warnings and workload. This book brings together the most recent human factors work in the transportation domain, including empirical research, human performance and other types of modeling, analysis, and development. The issues facing engineers, scientists, and other practitioners of human factors in transportation research are becoming more challenging and more critical. The common theme across these sections is that they deal with the intersection of the human and the system. Moreover, many of the chapter topics cross section boundaries, for instance by focusing on function allocation in NextGen or on the safety benefits of a tower controller tool. This is in keeping with the systemic nature of the problems facing human factors experts in rail and road, aviation and maritime research– it is becoming increasingly important to view problems not as isolated issues that can be extracted from the system environment, but as embedded issues that can only be understood as a part of an overall system.