Planning Urban Highway Reconstruction with Traffic Demand Affected by Construction Schedule
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 131, Issue 10
Abstract
This paper introduces an integrated approach to the development of construction and traffic management plans for the reconstruction of high-volume urban freeways. The Devore project, which rebuilds a 4.2 km stretch of the deteriorated concrete pavement (truck lanes) on Interstate-15 (I-15) in San Bernardino County in southern California, is used as a case study. Alternative closure timing, closure duration, and number of closed lanes were compared to identify the best rehabilitation strategy for the Devore reconstruction project. The perspectives of construction schedule, traffic inconvenience (road user cost and maximum delay), and agency costs were considered. The analysis concluded that full closure of one roadbed with counter-flow traffic during repeated three or four continuous weekdays, utilizing round-the-clock reconstruction operations, was the best strategy for both the public and the sponsoring agency. A delay in the start of construction from Spring to Fall 2004 is expected to cause a 5% seasonal traffic increase, which will result in a $4.5 million increase in road user cost and a 20% increase in maximum queue delay per closure.
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Acknowledgments
This study was funded by Caltrans. The writers acknowledge the support contributed by Caltrans District 8. Special thanks are extended to Tom Salata of the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) for his advice and comments during the constructability review meetings for the I-15 Devore project. The writers appreciate Chang M. Kim, a PhD student at the University of California at Davis, and Christine Warren of CH2M Hill for their support in the traffic analysis.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 131 • Issue 10 • October 2005
Pages: 752 - 761
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© 2005 ASCE.
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Received: Jul 14, 2004
Accepted: Mar 1, 2005
Published online: Oct 1, 2005
Published in print: Oct 2005
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