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Guide to Integrating Business Processes to Improve Travel Time Reliability

This guide, which focuses on showing how to use BPMN for mapping traffic operations business processes, is intended to help transportation agencies move forward in addressing nonrecurring traffic congestion and delivering more reliable travel times on their highway networks. The guide explores va

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Guide to Integrating Business Processes to Improve Travel Time Reliability

The guide is based on a series of case studies, from the United States and one from Great Britain, that describe successful business processes. The case studies show how business processes were successfully improved in operational areas such as traffic incident management (TIM), work zone ma

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Guidelines for Timing Yellow and All-Red Intervals at Signalized Intersections

This report provides comprehensive and uniform guidelines for safe and efficient yellow change and all-red clearance intervals at signalized intersections. The project (1) reviewed and compared the definitions of yellow change and all-red clearance intervals,(2) conducted a critical review o

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Guidelines for Virtual Transportation Management Center Development

This guidebook is intended to serve as a detailed reference that addresses the concepts, methods, processes, tasks, techniques, and other related issues for practitioners to consider associated with planning and development for a virtual Traffic Management Center (TMC). The guidebook describes th

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Guidelines on the Use of Auxiliary Through Lanes at Signalized Intersections

Lanes for through movements that begin upstream of a signalized intersection and end downstream of the intersection—auxiliary through lanes (ATLs)—are recognized as a moderate-cost approach to increase intersection and overall corridor capacity. NCHRP Report 707 provides guidelines to use for jus

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Identification and Delineation of Incident Management and Multi-Agency Emergency Response Functions

Defines, compares, and contrasts the functions associated with day-to-day incident management activities and multi-agency emergency response activities in order to define and target state DOT job functions, research, training, and committee related activities.
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Identification of Cross-Cutting Issues Related to the Development, Management, and Delivery of Transportation Projects and Programs

State departments of transportation (DOTs) face many challenges today. Acquiring adequate staffing, managing critical assets, dealing with political issues at federal, state and local levels, and serving a public with ever higher expectations are just a few. It has never been more difficult to take
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Impacts of Regulations and Policies on CV and AV Technology Introduction in Transit Operations

Connected vehicle (CV) and autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies offer the potential to significantly change public transportation systems and improve the safety, effectiveness, and quality of services. For instance, first- and last-mile AV services could bring riders to line haul modes and significa
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Informational Product

Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas: A Planning Guide

TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 33: Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas: A Planning Guide outlines potential strategies and practical solutions for public and private stakeholders to improve freight movement system performance in diverse m

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Improving Our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Pricing Affect Travel Demand

This project was carried out to review and advance the state of the practice in modeling the effects of highway congestion and highway pricing on travelers decisions, including the choice of facility, choice of route, choice of mode and choice of departure. Important findings are related on how d

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