摘要: |
The Strategic Work-Zone Analysis Tools (SWAT) program addresses work-zone factors and stresses the importance of accounting for work-zone influences when making transportation-improvement decisions. The initiative is focused on providing the tools that are necessary to achieve the goal of a more comprehensive analysis to support and enhance strategy development and decision making in every phase of the project: planning, design, construction, and operations. A suite of tools are being developed to meet the needs of practitioners: the expert system, the spreadsheet, and model/simulation. Modeling or simulation supports three functions: providing delay-mitigation factors for the traffic-impact analysis spreadsheet to facilitate the general analysis, supplying situation-specific mitigation factors that will enable practitioiners to obtain precise estimates of effects directly related to their situations, and supporting the development of traffic-impact information to facilitate the operation of work-zone motorist information systems. Two data-collection efforts are underway to support the development of SWAT. |