Traffic Impact Assessment of Moving Work Zone Operations: Tech Transfer Summary

Because MWZs create a different type of bottleneck than stationary work zones, existing traffic impact analysis tools are not designed to model the impacts of MWZs. Additionally, many existing studies of moving bottlenecks are theoretical in nature, limited to certain lane configurations, and restrictive in the types of mobile work zone attributes considered. Driver behavior at moving bottlenecks is also not well understood and has not been investigated in prior research, in part due to the challenges with data collection at MWZs.

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