Integrated corridor management initiative : demonstration phase evaluation – Dallas technical capability analysis test plan.

This report presents the test plan for conducting the Technical Capability Analysis for the United States \nDepartment of Transportation (U.S. DOT) evaluation of the Dallas U.S. 75 Integrated Corridor \nManagement (ICM) Initiative Demonstration. The ICM projects being deployed in Dallas include a \nsuite of strategies aimed at balancing U.S. 75 corridor transportation supply and demand to promote \noverall corridor efficiency and safety. Operational strategies to be deployed in the Dallas U.S. 75 \nhighway corridor include: simulations to predict travel conditions for improved incident response, \ninterdependent response plans among agencies, traffic diversion to frontage roads and strategic arterials, \ntraveler mode shift to the light rail system during major freeway incidents, and comparative travel time \ninformation to the public and operating agencies for freeway, HOV lanes, frontage roads, arterial streets, \nand light-rail transit lane. Technologies that will be used to carry out these strategies include a Decision \nSupport System, a 511 traveler information system (telephone and website), a regional center-to-center \ninformation exchange network, dynamic message signs, parking management systems, transit signal \npriority and responsive traffic signals. This Technical Capability Test Plan is based on the ICM \nInitiative Demonstration National Evaluation Framework. This test plan provides an overview of the \nTechnical Capability Analysis and describes the specific qualitative and quantitative data that will be \ncollected to support the analysis. Data analysis methodologies as well as risks and mitigations \nassociated with this evaluation analysis are also discussed in this test plan\n