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Freeway Management and Operations Handbook

List of Tables

Table 1-1. Handbook Contributors Freeway Operations Committee Task Force
Table 1-2. Measured Benefits of Freeway Management
Table 1-3. Physical Factors Affecting Roadway Capacity and Operations
Table 1-4. Key Themes for Freeway Management & Operations
Table 2-1. Selected Criteria "Self-Assessment Process for Roadway Operations and System Management"
Table 3-1. Candidate Stakeholders
Table 3-2. Key Systems Engineering Questions
Table 4-1. Performance Measures
Table 4-2. Recommended Performance Measures from NCHRP #311
Table 5-1. Physical Factors Affecting Roadway Capacity and Operations
Table 7-1. Freeway Management and Operations Activities and Their Relationship to Ramp Management
Table 7-2. Summary of Ramp Metering Benefits
Table 7-3. Twin Cities, Minnesota Ramp Metering System Summary
Table 8-1. Truck Lane Restriction Experiences
Table 8-2. Summary of Impacts from Truck Restrictions
Table 8-3. Characteristics of Contraflow HOV Lanes on Grade-Separated Facilities in the New York Metropolitan Area
Table 8-4. Advantages and Disadvantages of Toll Road Financing
Table 8-5a. Barriers to Congestion Pricing Implementation: Technical
Table 8-5b. Barriers to Congestion Pricing Implementation: Social and Political
Table 8-6. Relationship of Technologies to Strategies
Table 8-7. Relationship of Strategies to Typical Objectives
Table 8-8. Elimination of Strategies that Do Not Meet Project Objectives
Table 9-1. Freeway Management and Operations Activities and Their Relationship to HOV Treatments
Table 9-2. Agencies and Groups Involved in Developing an HOV Operation and Enforcement Plan
Table 9-3. Summary of HOV Marketing Manual
Table 9-4. Suggested Objectives and Measures of Effectiveness for HOV Facilities
Table 10-1. Traffic Incident Management Self-Assessment Questions
Table 10-2. WSDOT Incident Response Database Elements
Table 11-1. Planned Special Event Categories and Characteristics
Table 11-2. Traffic Incident Management Program Assessment Questions Relative to Managing Planned Special Events
Table 11-3a. Tools for Mitigating Planned Special Event Impacts on Transportation System Operations: Traffic Control and Capacity Improvements
Table 11-3b. Tools for Mitigating Planned Special Event Impacts on Transportation System Operations: Freeway Management
Table 11-3c. Tools for Mitigating Planned Special Event Impacts on Transportation System Operations: Travel Demand Management
Table 11-4. Traffic Management Plan Components
Table 11-5. Travel Demand Management Initiatives
Table 12-1. Planning Process for Emergency Management
Table 12-2. DOT Emergency Management Functions
Table 12-3. Emergency Management Considerations for Freeway Management
Table 12-4. Steps for Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment of Highway Transportation Assets
Table 12-5. Potential Countermeasures
Table 13-1. Freeway Management and Operations Activities and Their Relationship to Information Dissemination
Table 13-2. Applications of CMSs
Table 14-1. Freeway Management Activities and Their Relationship to TMCs
Table 14-2. Common LAN Topology Advantages and Disadvantages
Table 14-3. Client / Server Definitions
Table 14-4. ITS Data Relevant for Archiving
Table 14-5. Outline Concept of Operations
Table 14-6. List of Possible Generic Functions Performed in Freeway Management TMCs
Table 14-7. Criteria for Assigning Functions to Humans and Machines
Table 14-8a. Staffing Requirement for Regional TMC in Rochester, NY: Typical Staffing Distribution Requirements (Monday Friday)
Table 14-8b. Staffing Requirement for Regional TMC in Rochester, NY: Typical Staffing Distribution Requirements (Saturday)
Table 14-8c. Staffing Requirement for Regional TMC in Rochester, NY: Typical Staffing Distribution Requirements (Sunday)
Table 14-9. Operators Manual Table of Comments
Table 14-10. Baselines in the System Life Cycle
Table 15-1. Freeway Management Activities and Their Relationship to Detection
Table 15-2. Strengths and Weaknesses of Commercially Available Sensor Technologies
Table 15-3. Traffic Output Data (Typical), Communications Bandwidth, and Cost of Commercially Available Sensors
Table 16-1. Steps for Developing a Regional ITS Architecture
Table 16-2. Self-Assessment Criteria for Regional Integration
Table 16-3. Message Sets for Current Event Information
Table 16-4. Common Types of Agreements
Table 16-5. TRANSCOM Member Agencies
Table 16-6. Spokane Regional Transportation Management Goals