Intelligent Transportation Systems: Functional Design for Effective Traffic Management

✍ Scribed by Robert Gordon (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intelligent Transportation Systems: Functional Design for Economical and Efficient Traffic Management provides practical guidance on the efficient use of resources in the design of ITS. The author explains how functional design alternatives can meet project objectives and requirements with optimal cost effectiveness and clarifies how transportation planning and traffic diversion principles relate to functional ITS device selections and equipment locations. Methodologies for translating objectives to functional device types, determining device deployment densities and determining the best placement of CCTV cameras and message signs are provided, as are models for evaluating the benefits of design alternatives based on traffic conditions. Readers will learn how to reduce recurrent congestion, improve incident clearance time in non-recurrent congestion, provide real-time incident information to motorists, and leverage transportation management center data for lane control through important new active transportation and demand management (ATDM) methods. Finally, the author examines exciting developments in connected vehicle technologies, exploring their potential to greatly improve safety, mobility and energy efficiency. This resource will greatly benefit all ITS designers and managers and is of pivotal importance for operating agencies performing evaluations to justify operational funding and system expansions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Cost Effective Design Processes....Pages 7-18
Functional ITS Design Issues....Pages 19-39
Non-Recurrent Congestion: Improvement of Time to Clear Incidents....Pages 41-90
Non-recurrent Congestion: Incident Information to Motorists....Pages 91-117
Recurrent Congestion: Information to Motorists....Pages 119-123
Ramp Metering....Pages 125-155
Transportation Management Centers....Pages 157-176
Evaluation of System Design and Operation....Pages 177-191
Active Traffic Management (ATM)....Pages 193-205
Corridor Management....Pages 207-219
Website Support....Pages 221-223
ITS and the Connected Vehicle....Pages 225-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-282

✦ Subjects

Transportation; Automotive Engineering; Civil Engineering; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)