This primer provides an overview of traffic analysis tools in the transportation analysis process. Different categories of traffic analysis tools are defined, and the challenges and limitations of using traffic analysis tools is presented. A specific comparison between Highway Capacity Manual (HC
The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Road Weather Management brochure describes the challenges of road weather and its effect on highway safety, capacity, and reliability. At a high level, the brochure describes the current actions transportation system operators are taking to warn travele
This is the Standard Practice from the North Carolina DOT for the "Move Over / Reduce Speed" Law. This document not only contains the written standards for North Carolina with regard to the necessary signing to meet the requirements of this law, but also contains the relevant section of the law f
AN ACT relative to the duties of public safety responders and the expeditious clearance of a roadway.
This memo presents a synthesis of existing practice, based on collection of structured information from state and local agencies with signal system management responsibilities. One hundred twenty agencies were contacted and asked to fill out a data collection instrument placed on the web. The ins
2004 Session CHAPTER 193 SB 530 – FINAL VERSION
The purpose of this report is to define the elements of a comprehensive signal system asset management system (SSAMS). It builds on the results of a state-of-the-practice review of signal systems asset management, and lays the groundwork for investigating how a SSAMS could be used to evaluate alt
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 526: Snow and Ice Control: Guidelines for Materials and Methods provides guidance for selecting roadway snow and ice control strategies, and tactics for a wide range of winter maintenance operating conditions. This guidance applie
In order to identify the key characteristics of signal systems that should be taken into account in the development of a SSAMS, the state-of-the-practice in signal system asset management was evaluated through a literature review, agency survey, and follow-up in-depth interviews. The detailed fin
Optimizing the System is a basic informational report discussing how TSM&O strategies can reduce the impacts of non-recurring congestion and “optimize the system.” Topics discussed include traffic incident management, work zone management, road weather management, strategies employed in rural
