Project SHRP 2 C04, Improving Our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Pricing Affect Travel Demand, reviewed and advanced the state of the practice in modeling the effects of highway congestion and highway pricing on travelers’ decisions, including choices of facility, route, mode, and ti
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 845: Advancing Automated and Connected Vehicles: Policy and Planning Strategies for State and Local Transportation Agencies assesses policy and planning strategies at the state, regional, and local leve
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Program(NCHRP) has released Strategies to advance Automated and Connected Vehicle: Briefing Document. It is intended for state, regional, and agency, and political decision makers who are framing public policy making for these transformational
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 813: A Guide to Agency-Wide Knowledge Management for State Departments of Transportation presents guidance for state transportation agencies on adopting an explicit knowledge management (KM) strategy and the ways that organization
In many urban areas, traffic congestion commonly delays bus services and adversely affects schedule reliability. Bus priorities on streets and highways have been successfully used for almost a half century. More recently, some communities have adopted policies and
Driverless vehicles have been predicted, promised, and desired for decades. Finally, technologies necessary to realize these devices have become available. The question is no longer if, but when, driverless vehicles will become available to the public. When they do, driverless
Transportation plays a vital role in evacuation mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. However, “the majority of the emergency operations plans for large urbanized areas are only partially sufficient in describing in specific and measurable terms how a major evacuation c
This report presents the results of a study on the deployment, use, and effect of real-time traveler information (TI) systems. The main goals were to understand agency dissemination practices, assess the potential effectiveness of TI systems as it relates to traveler perception
