Urban Traffic, Parking, and System Management

摘要

The 16 papers in this report deal with the following areas: diversion of freeway traffic in Los Angeles: it worked; developing segmentwide traffic-responsive freeway entry control; joint operational management of an HOV facility: a success in Houston; delay messages and delay tolerance at Houston work zones; optimizing traffic diversion around bottlenecks; assessment of violations on priority entry ramps; estimating the impacts of ramp-control programs; description of a combined approach for arterial signal coordination considering bandwidth and delays; improved graphic techniques in signal progress; analysis of parking in urban centers: equilibrium assignment approach; estimating downtown parking demands: a land use approach; effects of ending employer-paid parking for solo drivers; effects of parking measures in the center of Leeuwarden; whether parking in the city center; contraflow bus lanes in Chicago: safety and traffic impacts; and, traffic restraint on New York City's East River bridges.