Since the introduction of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), the transportation engineering community has tried to identify the benefits of these systems in concrete terms. One of these ITS strategies is a Dynamic Message Sign (DMS). This report details an attempt to determine the effect a DMS system has on driver behavior at a site selected in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. The scenario studied was the choice a traveler has to change his/her route from the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel to the Monitor Merrimac Bridge Tunnel based on messages displayed on the DMS system. Data was collected on the DMS system and volume data was obtained using loop detectors, over a period from August 1998 to July 1999. This data was processed and the difference between the percentage of drivers turning towards the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel when the DMS system was and was not in use was calculated. This difference is referred to as the diversion percentage.
Evaluation of Traveler Diversion Due to En-Route Information
2000
64 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Transportation , Road Transportation , Traffic information signs , Driver behavior , Traffic management , Information systems , Transportation systems , Literature review , Benefits , Data collection , Sensitivity analysis , Statistics , Virginia , Dynamic Message Sign(DMS) , DMS(Dynamic Message Signs) , Diversion percentage , Loop detectors , ATIS(Advanced Traveler Information) , ITS(Intelligent Transportation Systems)
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