Operations - Did You Know?

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The 2010 Urban Congestion Trends: Enhancing System Reliability with Operations report features a number of operations project evaluations demonstrating how system reliability can be enhanced through a variety of operational strategies. The report also includes three national snapshot performance measures derived from travel time data from 20 urban areas in the U.S. The measures include congested hours, travel time index, and the planning time index. - 1/12/2012

The 2011 Traffic Signal Operations Self Assessment is now available at www.ite.org/selfassessment. This self assessment not only provides agencies with a tool for benchmarking their own current practices, but will also provide necessary data for the 3rd Traffic Signal Report Card, which is a composite national score of agency practices and policies that support traffic signal management, operations, and maintenance. Traffic signal operating agencies are asked to complete a Traffic Signal Operations Self Assessment by December 16, 2011. - 10/28/2011

According to the Federal Highway Administration's Freight Analysis Framework version 3, on average, the U.S. transportation system handled the movement of 44 million tons of freight, worth $40 billion, each day in 2009. Forecasts indicate that these numbers will climb to approximately 74 million tons and $108 billion per day by the year 2040. (Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Freight Management and Operations, Freight Analysis Framework, version 3.1, 2010.) - 2/9/2011