Abstract: Specific service (or logo) signs provide information on attractions, camping, lodging, food, and gas services on the mainline of limited-access highways in advance of the interchange that provides access to the services. ...

Abstract: Signage plays an important role in work zones to provide guidance to drivers under changed conditions. This study investigated the safety effect of an alternative merge sign configuration in a freeway work zone. In this ...

Abstract: Signage plays an important role in work zones to provide guidance to drivers under changed conditions. This study investigated the safety effect of an alternative merge sign configuration in a freeway work zone. In this ...

Abstract: This paper focuses on traffic modeling of large-scale hurricane evacuation networks. Several research efforts to date have addressed the evacuation problem from a local perspective. The largest network found in the open ...

Abstract: Work zone capacity is a key variable in scheduling construction activity on roadways. Understanding the effect of different definitions of capacity on the values computed from field data will result in better planning and ...

Abstract: Incentive/disincentive clauses (I/D) are designed to award payments to contractors if they complete work ahead of schedule and to deduct payments if they exceed the completion time. A previously unanswered question is, ...

Abstract: Incentive/disincentive (I/D) clauses are designed to award payments to contractors if they complete work ahead of schedule and to deduct payments if they overrun the completion time. The use of incentive/disincentive clauses ...

Abstract: The evaluation of dynamic message signs (DMSs) has been challenging to undertake because of the difficulty of identifying the effects of DMSs from traffic patterns. The primary contribution of this study is the comprehensive ...

Abstract: The purpose of this research was to develop a decision support methodology to identify the optimal locations of a finite set of point detectors on a freeway corridor to minimize the error in travel time estimation. The ...

Abstract: Households have access to real-time travel information via different media. However, the effects of predeparture information about travel delays on households’ evacuation plans (evacuate/stay, departure time, route, and ...