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2011 Urban Congestion Trends: Improving Travel Reliability with Operations
Posted: 6/8/2012

The report features a number of operations project evaluations demonstrating how system reliability can be enhanced through a variety of operational strategies as well as an example of how system reliability can be reported. The report also includes three national snapshot performance measures derived from travel time data from 19 urban areas in the U.S. during 2011. The measures include congested hours, travel time index, and the planning time index.

URL: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop12019/index.htm


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