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COMPARISON OF CRITERIA USED BY STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES TO EVALUATE PROPOSED LANE CLOSURES IN PLANNED WORK ZONES.
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Penimicha, Sudheer
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Year and Degree
2015, Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Cleveland State University, Washkewicz College of Engineering.
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis was to compare the specific performance measures used by various state transportation agencies across the United States to evaluate the impact of proposed lane closures on the interstate system and decide whether the impact is acceptable or not, and thus whether or not to approve the proposed lane closure. Information about the policies, processes, and procedures for approving lane closures was obtained through a combination of searching the webpages of individual state departments of transportation, downloading pertinent materials, emailing requests for information, and contacting agency personnel by telephone. The collected documents and notes taken during telephone conversation were reviewed and details about the criteria being used by 41 state transportation agencies for the approval of lane closures were extracted. A trend analysis was performed to determine whether the use of any criterion was more popular. The use of several criteria was examined across the whole nation, within geographical regions, and finally across the same regions. The results of the analysis revealed that some state transportation agencies use multiple criteria. For the 41 states examined, 23 use volume to capacity ratio, 18 used delay, 6 used queue length, and 4 used level of service. Thus, the most popular criterion used across the nation is the volume to capacity ratio. The analysis within geographical regions revealed that in the Central and North Central, Northeast and Southeast regions the volume to capacity ratio is the most popular criterion while in the Northwest and Southwest regions a delay criterion is the most popular criterion. The analysis across geographic regions revealed that the delay criterion is most popular in the Southwest region, the level of service criterion is most popular in the Northwest region, the capacity and queue length criteria is most popular in the Central and North Central region. Surprisingly, the queue length, which is probably the easiest of the performance measures to observe in the field is only is only popular in the Central and North Central region.
Committee
Jacqueline Mary Jenkins, PhD (Committee Chair)
Lutful Khan, PhD (Committee Member)
Mehdi Jalalpour, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
75 p.
Subject Headings
Transportation
Keywords
Lane closures
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State transportation department agencies
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Policies
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Procedures
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Data collection
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Data cataloging
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Trend analysis
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Penimicha, S. (2015).
COMPARISON OF CRITERIA USED BY STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES TO EVALUATE PROPOSED LANE CLOSURES IN PLANNED WORK ZONES.
[Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1432124690
APA Style (7th edition)
Penimicha, Sudheer.
COMPARISON OF CRITERIA USED BY STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES TO EVALUATE PROPOSED LANE CLOSURES IN PLANNED WORK ZONES.
2015. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1432124690.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Penimicha, Sudheer. "COMPARISON OF CRITERIA USED BY STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES TO EVALUATE PROPOSED LANE CLOSURES IN PLANNED WORK ZONES." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1432124690
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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COMPARISON OF CRITERIA USED BY STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES TO EVALUATE PROPOSED LANE CLOSURES IN PLANNED WORK ZONES. by Sudheer Penimicha is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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