Project Details
START DATE
07/01/97
END DATE
09/01/99
FOCUS AREAS
SPONSORS
Iowa Department of Transportation
Mid-America Transportation Center
Researchers
Principal Investigator
Tom Maze
About the research
To support the analysis of driver behavior at rural freeway work zone lane closure merge points, CTRE staff collected traffic data at merge areas using video image processing technologies. The collection of data and the calculation of the capacity of lane closures are reported in a companion report, Traffic Management Strategies for Merge Areas in Rural Work Zones. These data are used in the work reported in this document and are used to calibrate a microscopic simulation model of a typical Iowa rural freeway lane closure.