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Integrated Corridor Management – Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (AMS) Methodology

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March 2008
FHWA-JPO-08-034
EDL 14414

Federal Highway Administration
Office of Transportation Management, (HOTM)
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
www.fhwa.dot.gov

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Table of Contents

Notice and Quality Assurance Statement

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1.0 Introduction

1.1 Principles in Developing AMS Methodologies

2.0 Existing AMS Tools

3.0 Performance Measures and Analysis Approach

3.1 Corridor Analysis Approach

3.2 Performance Measures

3.3 Analysis of Non-Recurrent Congestion

3.4 Analysis Approach – Existing Conditions

3.5 Analysis Approach – Future Conditions

3.6 Output

4.0 AMS Methodologies

4.1 AMS Framework

4.2 Macroscopic Travel Demand Forecasting Models

4.3 Mesoscopic Simulation Models

4.4 Microscopic Simulation Models

4.5 Representation of Mode Shift and Transit Services

4.6 Modeling Traveler Information

4.7 Modeling Tolling, High-Occupancy Toll Lanes, and Congestion Pricing

4.8 Interface Requirements

5.0 Summary, Conclusions, and Next Steps

5.1 Next Steps

Appendix A. Additional Options for ATIS Evaluation in ICM/AMS

Appendix B. Examples of Model Interfaces

List of Tables

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List of Figures

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