Identification and Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Highway Design Features to Reduce Nonrecurrent Congestion

Overview

This report focuses on geometric design treatments that can be used to reduce delays due to nonrecurrent congestion. The report provides a method for incorporating the economic savings due to delay reduction and due to reliability improvement, respectively for specific design treatments during a the asset life cycle of highway infrastructure.

This project also produced a Design Guide for Addressing Nonrecurrent Congestion and an Analysis Tool for Design Treatments to Address Nonrecurrent Congestion.

Source Organization Location

Washington
,
DC

Operations Area of Practice

    Roadway Geometric Design
    Risk Management
    Life Cycle Asset Management
    Planning for Operations
    Economic and Investment Analysis Tools
    Cost / Benefit Analysis
    Hazard Identification

Organizational Capability Element

    Project Development
    Programming/Budget/Funding
    Scoping
    Roadway Geometric Design

Content Type

Research

Role in Organization

Transportation Planner
Senior Engineer
Researcher/Academic
Principal Engineer
Manager / First Line Supervisor
Engineer
Senior Manager

Publishing Organization

SHRP2 Program

Objective

Learning
Prioritization

Document Downloads

Prime Contractor
MRI Global and HDR Engineering, Inc.
Author
Ingrid B. Potts,
Douglas W. Harwood,
Jessica Hutton, et al.
TOM Chapters
20.2
30.2
15.1
15.4
6.5
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Issue Date
Publication Number
S2-L07-RR-1
ISBN Number
978-0-309-27364-0