TRB Freeway Operations
Committee
Chair: Jon Obenberger, FHWA
TSM&O Activities at the
2016 TRB Annual Meeting
Committee URL:
https://sites.google.com/site/trbfreewayops/
Annual Meeting Activities
• Sunday Workshops
– Workshop 179: Decision Support Systems for
Transportation Systems Management and
Operations, Sunday, January 10, 2016 1:30 PM 4:30PM Convention Center, 102B
– Workshop 183: Innovations in User Information
Systems for Dynamic Freeway Management,
Sunday January 10, 2016, 1:30 PM 4:30PM Convention Center, 101
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
Annual Meeting Activities (cont.)
• Committee Meetings
– Freeway Operations Committee, Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 8:00 am
& 7:30 pm, Marriott Marquis
– Active Traffic Management Joint Subcommittee of AHB20, AHB35,
Monday, January 11, 2016, 7:00 pm, Marriott Marquis
• Subcommittees – Sunday, January 10th
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2-3 pm Emerging Freeway Operations Concepts, AHB20(6)
3-5 pm Freeway Management Handbook, AHB20(1)
5-6:30 pm Freeway Operations Research, AHB20(3)
6:30-8 pm Freeway Operations Planning and Meetings, AHB20(4)
8-9:30 pm Freeway Simulation, AHB20(2)
Traffic Simulation Models Joint Subcom, Monday, January 11, 7:30 pm
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
Annual Meeting Activities (Cont.)
• Sessions
– Session 249: Freeway Operations, Monday, January 11, 2016, 8:30 am
– Session 323: Freeway Traffic Control, Monday, January 11, 2016, 10:45
am
– Session 619: Traffic Management Capabilities and the Next Generation
of TMS/TMCs, Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 1:30 pm
– Session 693: Active Traffic Management Applications Mitigating the
Impacts of Nonrecurring Congestion, Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 3:45
pm
– Session 815: What Does Resilience Mean for Operations and What do
Operations Mean for Resilience?, Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 10:15
am
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
Mid-Year Meeting Activities
• June 14 – 16, 2016 , Berlin, Germany
– 7th International Symposium on Highway Capacity
and Quality of Service
– 3rd International Symposium on Freeway and
Tollway Operations
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
Research Circular Purpose & Objectives
• To document the identification and
prioritization of research needs for submittal to
funding sources (NCHRP, FHWA, Pooled Fund
Studies, etc.)
• Strategically focus on areas that are of
importance to the TSM&O community based on
advancing State of Practice and State of Art
• Partner with
– Other TRB Committees (RTSMO, HCQS, Managed
Lanes, Traffic Control Devices, etc.)
– AASHTO SSOM Subcommittee, TIM Network, ITE
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
2015
Recent NCHRP Successes
Funding Project
Year
No.
Title
Amount
2014
3-114
Planning and Evaluating Active Traffic
Management Strategies
$700,000
2015
15-57
Interaction Effects between Freeway and
Surface Street Facilities: System
Considerations in a Highway Capacity Context
$800,000
2016
3-123
Innovative Methods for Identifying and
Delineating Dynamic Lane Use Control
$350,000
2016
3-124
User Information Needs and Workload Issues
Associated with ATM Strategies
$750,000
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
Research Circular Status
2015
https://sites.google.com/site/trbfreewayops/sub_committees/research
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
Research Circular Review
• 8 Focus Areas
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Active traffic management (ATM) - Beverly Kuhn
Integrated corridor management (ICM) – Bob Sheehan/Chris Poe
Managed lanes – Chuck Fuhs/Myron Swisher
Traffic incident management (TIM) – Eric Rensel
Performance data, monitoring & management – Alex Skabardonis
Traffic management centers (TMCs) – Jimmy Chu
Detection & surveillance – Larry Klein/Yinhai Wang
Traffic control devices for freeways – David Noyce
• Available online:
https://sites.google.com/site/trbfreewayops/sub_committees/research
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
Online Survey: Background
• 101 Research needs identified in Circular (approx. 12 per focus area)
• Prioritization exercise at 2014 Mid-Year Meeting
• Exercise was limited to those who attended that meeting, desire to get higher
sample size and broader participation from other Operations-focused
Committees
• Decided to develop an online survey for broader input. Convened a work group
at the 2015 Annual Meeting
• Srikanth Panguluri, Lou Neudorff, Qing He, Chris Poe
• Distributed in April 2015 via Survey Monkey
• Included 28 research statements and asked participants to give a ranking of 1
through 5 (1 = not important, 5 = most important)
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
Online Survey: Results
Identified Research Need
Defining, collecting data, and evaluating relevant performance measures for ATM applications.
Effectively and safely communicating real-time information to road users through in-vehicle or
personal communication devices.
Developing and utilizing decision support technology and "big data" to enable more responsive
TIM.
Develop methods for obtaining and predicting performance measures from field and other data
sources (e.g., mobile devices, “big data”
Conducting safety analyses of ATM applications, and the safety tradeoffs relative to enhanced
mobility.
Driver behavior in response to the real-time travel time information disseminated from TMCs
including travel time displays at diversion points, and the impact of displaying travel times for
alternative routes and modes.
Transportation and enforcement agencies, and public perspectives on dynamic speed limits and
other ATM applications.
Opportunities and challenges for incorporating real-time decision support systems into ICM.
Data and information sharing needs for ICM operations and traveler information, including
types of information required and processes for sharing and managing data between multiple
transportation agencies.
Develop methods for identifying and estimating performance measures from Connected
Vehicle data.
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
Rating
Average
Rank #
3.72
1
3.58
2
3.53
3
3.53
4
3.53
5
3.47
6
3.42
7
3.39
8
3.36
9
3.33
10
Next Steps
• Complete the State of the Practice
section of the Research Circular
– Adding chapter on Connected and
Automated Vehicles
• Developing Research Needs
Statements for top priority Needs
topics
• Broad review / input from other TRB
committees on Needs Statements
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)
2015
For More Information
• Jon Obenberger, FHWA, Chair Freeway
Operations Committee
– Jon.obenberger@dot.gov; 202.493.3265
• James Colyar, FHWA, Chair, Research
Subcommittee
– James.colyar@dot.gov; 360.753.9408
• Christopher Poe, TTI, Co-Chair, Research
Subcommittee
– cpoe@tamu.edu; 972.994.2206
TRB Freeway Operations Committee (AHB20)