CE 459/559 Transportation Operations
Winter 2009

Welcome to Transportation Operations!

View the course syllabus for Winter 2009.

RESOURCES:

• Methods of Analysis for Transportation Operations [Daganzo and Newell]
• Unlocking Some Mysteries of Traffic Flow Theory [Bertini]
• Bertini Mysteries
• Bottleneck Shanghai [pdf] [ppt]
• Bottleneck Diagnosis on the Gardiner Expressway [Bertini]
• Traffic Flow and Capacity [Cassidy]
• Traffic Flow Theory: A Monograph, 1975 [TRB]
• Revised Traffic Flow Theory Monograph: [TRB]
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1: Introduction (Gartner, Messer, Rathi)
  • Chapter 2 (revised): Traffic Stream Characteristics (Hall)
  • Chapter 3: Human Factors (Koppa)
  • Chapter 4: Car Following Models (Rothery)
  • Chapter 5 (revised): Continuum Models (Kühne, Michalopolous, Zhang)
  • Chapter 6: Macroscopic Flow Models (Williams)
  • Chapter 7: Traffic Impact Models (Ardekani, Hauer, Jamei)
  • Chapter 8: Unsignalized Intersection Theory (Troutbeck, Brilon)
  • Chapter 9: Traffic Flow at Signalized Intersections (Rouphail, Tarko, Li)
  • Chapter 10: Traffic Simulation (Lieberman, Rathi)
  • Chapter 11: Kinetic Theories (Nelson)
  • Index
• Newell: Bibliography
• Newell: Memoirs on Highway Traffic Flow Theory in the 1950s
• Newell: A Review of Traffic Flow Theory, Berkeley, February 25, 1965
• Daganzo:
  • Behavioral Theory
  • Problem Sets
  • Errata
  • Spreadsheet 1
  • Spreadsheet 2
• Lawson TRB presentation [ppt]
• Van Lint Time Mean Speed [ppt]
• Myton paper [ppt]
• Hoogendoorn and Bovy: State-of-the-Art in Vehicular Traffic Flow Monitoring.
• Gazis: The Origins of Traffic Theory
• HCM Applications Guidebook
• NGSIM Data
• I-880 Field Experiment (Freeway Service Patrol Evaluation)
  Data available at: http://ipa.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pettyk/FSP/
• Berkeley Highway Laboratory
  See website: http://bhl.its.berkeley.edu:9006/bhl/index.html
• Roundabout Simulation using cell transmission model
• Martin Treiber Simulation Videos: http://vwisb7.vkw.tu-dresden.de/~treiber/movie3d/index.html
• MIT Open Courseware Transportation Flow Systems
• Lindgren and Tantiyanugulchai Paramics/VISSIM [paper] [presentation]
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M
  

Bottleneck Identification Papers

1. Cassidy and Windover (1995)
2. Muñoz, J. C. and Daganzo C. F. (2002). "Fingerprinting Traffic from Static Freeway Sensors", Cooper@tive Tr@nsport@tion Dyn@mics , 1, 1-11. http://vwisb7.vkw.tu-dresden.de/TrafficForum/journalArticles/ctd02050601.pdf
3. Bertini, R.L., Hansen, S. and Bogenberger, K. “Empirical Analysis of Traffic Sensor Data Surrounding a Bottleneck on a German Autobahn.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board , Washington , D.C. , 2004.
4. Bertini, R.L. and Myton, A.  “Using PeMS Data to Empirically Diagnose Freeway Bottleneck Locations in Orange County, California.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board , Washington , D.C. , 2004.
5. Bertini, R.L. and Malik, S. “ Observed Dynamic Traffic Features On a Freeway Section with Merges and Diverges .” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board , Washington , D.C. , No. 1867, pp. 25-35, 2004.
6. Bertini, R.L. “Detecting Signals of Bottleneck Activation for Freeway Operations and Control.” Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems , Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 35–45, January–March 2005.
7. Bertini, R.L. and Leal, M. “Empirical Study of Traffic Features at a Freeway Lane Drop.” Journal of Transportation Engineering , American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 131, No. 6, June 2005. (In Press)
8. Bertini, R.L. and Cassidy, M.J. “Some Observed Queue Discharge Features at a Freeway Bottleneck Downstream of a Merge.” Transportation Research, Part A , Policy and Practice , Vol. 36, No. 8, Elsevier, pp. 683–697, October 2002.
9. Cassidy, M.J. and Bertini, R.L. “Some Traffic Features at Freeway Bottlenecks.” Transportation Research, Part B, Methodological , Vol. 33, No. 1, Elsevier, pp. 25–42, Jan. 1999.
10. Bertini, R.L., Lindgren, R.V., Helbing, D. and Schonhof, M. “The German Autobahn: An ITS Test Bed for Examining Dynamic Traffic Flow Phenomena.” 8th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vienna , Austria , September 13-16, 2005 .
11. Bertini, R.L., Boice, S. and Bogenberger, K. “Using ITS Data Fusion to Examine Traffic Dynamics on a Freeway with Variable Speed Limits.” 8th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vienna , Austria , September 13-16, 2005 .
12. Cassidy, M.J. and Bertini, R.L. “Observations at a Freeway Bottleneck.” In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (14th ISTTT), Jerusalem , Israel , Pergamon , New York , 1999, pp. 107–124.
13. Bertini, R.L., Lindgren, R.V., Helbing, D. and Schonhof, M. “Empirical Observations of Dynamic Traffic Flow Phenomena on a German Autobahn.” December 2004. [Abstract]
14. Bertini, R.L., Lindgren, R., Helbing, D. and Schönhof, M. “Empirical Analysis of Flow Features on a German Autobahn.” November 2003.
15. Horowitz, Z. and Bertini, R.L. “Using PORTAL Data to Empirically Diagnose Freeway Bottlenecks Located on Oregon Highway 217.”Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2007.