Vol. 18, No. 2

General News

• CA City Proposes Including Quality of Life Issues in Traffic Impact Studies
• Missouri Determines Criteria and Phasing for Left-Turn lanes at Intersections
• Disabled Citizens To Help Enforce Parking Laws
• Roads Are Major Threat to Wildlife; Maine Sponsors Multistate Conference To Address Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions
• Tort: DOT Found Liable for Not Improving Warning Devices at a Railway-Highway Crossing

Intelligence

• Virginia Implements Safety Enforcement Zones To Increase Safety on Corridors With Highest Number of Accidents
• National Conference on Managing Travel for Planned Special Events Scheduled for 2004
• FHWA Study of Houston Managed Lanes Case Released
• NRC Calls for Establishment of National Road Weather Research Program
• BTS Releases 2004 Packet Guide
• University of Birmingham Offers Senior Road Executives Program

Survey: Analysis, Optimization and Simulation Software for Traffic Signals

• Price options
• How software can be ordered
• Date last updated
• Is software available now?
• Data formats accommodated for import and export
• Public domain software with which software is integrated
• Operating systems accommodated
• Network compatible?
• Hardware requirements
• Max # of intersections that can be analyzed
• Main function of software
• Type of analysis applied by software
• Capabilities of software:
  • Grid/network analysis
  • Arterial analysis
  • Isolated intersection analysis
  • Evaluate existing timing
  • Optimize phase sequence
  • Optimize and analyze actuated controllers
  • Optimize cycle length
  • Optimize spits
  • Optimize actuated coordination
  • Optimize offsets
  • Optimize HCM LOS
  • Analyze and optimize 5- or 6-legged intersections
  • Analyze and optimize single point urban diamond interchange
  • Analyze and optimize dispersed movement intersection (continuous flow)
  • Analyze and optimize roundabouts
  • Analyze and optimize multiple intersections operating from one controller
  • Analyze and optimize overlapped movements
  • Time-space diagram
  • Platoon dispersion
  • Flow diagram
  • Capacity measures
  • Lane by lane analysis
  • Actuated control
  • Active animation
  • Graphic displays
  • Calculate HCM saturation flow rates
  • Interactive time-space diagram
  • Interactive platoon dispersion diagram
• Number of years software has been used in the U.S.
• Attributes that software contain for easier use
• Number of organizations using software
• Options provided for support and training
• Options provided for support and training that are free with the purchase of the software
• Can reports and measures of effectiveness be customized by a user?
• Measures of effectiveness that software produces and unit measure
• Main improvements to be added to the software within the next 12 months
• Main strengths of software

Report Synopses

• Houston Managed Lanes Case Study: Evolution of the Houston HOV System
• Where the Weather Meets the Road: A Research Agenda for Improving Road Weather Services
• Highways and Sprawl in North Carolina
• Journey to Work in the U.S. and Its Major Metropolitan Areas
• Traffic Data Quality Workshop Proceedings and Action Plan

RFPs

• Government Relations Consultant (Transportation Issues, Policy Decisions)
• Traffic Counts
• Public Involvement Study
• Neighborhood Planning and Urban Design Services
• Construction Inspection for Upgrading the Existing Northern State Parkway INFORM System
• Regional Transportation Consultant
• Prepare Advance Planning Reports
• Recruitment of Local Governments, and State and Federal Agencies for Participation in Voluntary Mobile Emission

 

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