Evaluation of Operational Strategies for Integrated Corridor Management

Integrated Corridor Management is the coordination of individual network operations between adjacent facilities in order to produce an interconnected system capable of cross network travel management. The focus of this paper is on development and exploration of integrated corridor management strategies in the CHART network in Maryland. More specifically, the management strategies focus on operation improvements that can be made to highway facilities in the case of planned and unplanned network disturbances. A simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment tool is used to evaluate these strategies- providing a basis for comparison between the strategies in terms of their projected impacts on network traffic conditions and relative effectiveness for support decision making in response disruptions.