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Description
Title
Managing pavement in a busy urban highway network
Author(s)
Schintler, Laurie A.
Issue Date
1996
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Donaghy, Kieran P.
Department of Study
Urban and Regional Planning
Discipline
Urban and Regional Planning
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Engineering, Civil
Transportation
Urban and Regional Planning
Language
eng
Abstract
In this dissertation, two dynamic transportation models are formulated and analyzed. When employed in optimal control exercises, these models determine for some metropolitan highway a set of optimal transportation policies, specifically relating to the problem of pavement management. The first model characterizes over some medium-range planning horizon changes in peak-period traffic volumes, pavement conditions, vehicle miles traveled, and volatile organic compounds emissions. When used in optimal control exercises, this model determines the sequence and timing of maintenance, lane expansion, and transportation demand management measures which will achieve desired peak-period traffic levels, reduce VMTs and VOC emissions to levels mandated by the Clean Air Act amendments, and maintain pavement conditions at acceptable design standards. The second model determines for some medium-range planning horizon, the sequence and timing of highway reconstruction, given some predetermined program of maintenance expenditures, lane expansion, and transportation demand management measures, that minimizes agency costs and system travel times. Numerical simulations of both models are performed, and for the latter, a sensitivity analysis conducted.
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