Adaptive traffic control effect on arterial travel time charateristics

Arterial streets are interrupted flow facilities th a balance two purposes: serving through trips and providing commercial and residential acce ss to adjacent land. A dominant factor in urban arterial street operations is the p resence of traffic signals, which govern the flow of vehicles that may enter and exit an art erial segment. Consequently, the performance of an arterial street is predominately inf uenced by delays incurred at traffic signals, with measures of effectiveness (MOEs) prim a ily a function of the performance at the arterial segment level. This paper presents a practical procedure to collect and analyze GPS-based travel time data that readily ref lects measures of performance for both segments and extended arterial sections. Underlyin g this procedure is an assumption that both average travel speed and average intersection approach delay can be calculated as a function of arterial segment travel time, resulting in travel time as a primary field measurement utilized for gauging arterial performan ce. The procedures developed include both field data collection techniques that center on GPS technologies and algorithms for processing the gathered GPS-based tr avel time data.

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