Active Transportation and Demand Management (ATDM) Analytical Methods for Urban Streets

Foreword

Welcome to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Active Transportation and Demand Management (ATDM) Analytical Methods for Urban Streets. Practice-ready analytical methods are needed to encourage broader deployment and adoption of ATDM strategies. This document describes a preliminary investigation of urban street ATDM analysis within a highway capacity analysis context. For this initial investigation, the research team and its stakeholders selected a short list of high-priority ATDM methods. Results of the study will be of interest to practitioners and researchers concerned with dynamic and reversible lane use along signalized arterials. The technical approach taken within this project was to make use of existing data sources and methodologies to the greatest extent possible. The existing methods were then supplemented by original research aimed at determining conditions under which ATDM strategies are beneficial, and developing suggested analysis procedures. The suggested procedures are compatible with the Highway Capacity Manual's annual reliability and special event analysis framework for urban streets.