Abstract: Despite the needs of assessing the time-varying queue length for incident traffic management, such imperative information has not yet been available in practice, due partly to the lack of reliable sensor data on many ...

Abstract: The presence of high variability in traffic simulation results often leads to concern about their reliability, and consequently precludes a rigorous evaluation of the target traffic system's performance under various control ...

Abstract: This paper illustrates the field measurements of saturation flow headways and start-up lost times at 11 representative intersections in the state of Maryland. Based on those empirical results, this study has recommended ...

Abstract: Non-recurrent traffic congestion due to incidents, highway construction zones, and special events has contributed up to 60% of the total freeway corridor delay in the United States. Under most scenarios, if proper diversion ...

Abstract: This paper presents the analysis results of driver responses during a yellow phase, based on field observations of 1,123 drivers collected with a specially designed system from six signalized intersections of high crash ...

Abstract: As one of the most popular unconventional interchange designs, diverging diamond intersection (DDI) has received increased attention over the past decade. Through a reverse operation of traffic movements between its two ...

Abstract: In April 1987 the United States Congress passed the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance (STURA) Act that permitted the states to increase the speed limit on rural Interstate highways up to 65 mph. This ...

Abstract: This paper presents a two-level integrated optimization system for use in generating the candidate set of optimal evacuation plans that serve as the input for simulation-based evacuation systems. In the proposed system, ...

Abstract: Despite the potential effectiveness of the dynamic late merge (DLM) control, most existing DLM systems, based on static thresholds, cannot best perform under time-varying traffic conditions. This paper presents an advanced ...