Improving incident management through traffic diversion to frontage roads and parallel routes

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dc.contributor.advisorMachemehl, Randy B.
dc.creatorDavidson, Michael Edward, 1984-
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-06T20:05:07Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:31:26Z
dc.date.available2017-01-06T20:05:07Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:31:26Z
dc.date.issued2007-12
dc.description.abstractThe Urban Mobility Report shows that 56% of all travel delay in Austin, TX is caused by incidents. This report investigates methods to manage traffic congestion due to incidents on northbound Interstate Highway 35 during the A.M. peak. Specifically, a portion of the traffic exiting the freeway is diverted to a parallel route, Congress Avenue. The amount of traffic diverted is controlled by signal timings that allow a select number of vehicles to turn left and travel onto Congress Avenue. The quantity of traffic diverted is dictated by the limiting capacity on the diversion route and the amount of acceptable delay due to the signal retiming at the diversion intersection. CORSIM was used to simulate three different incident scenarios and PASSER II was used to provide maximum progression in the direction of the diversion.en_US
dc.description.departmentCivil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineeringen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronicen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2S17SW49
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/44102
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden_US
dc.subject.lcshTraffic congestion--Texas
dc.subject.lcshTraffic flow--Texas
dc.subject.lcshTraffic accidents--Texas
dc.titleImproving incident management through traffic diversion to frontage roads and parallel routesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US

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