I recently presented my findings of a study recently completed to TexITE at the annual winter meeting in Frisco.  The study was entitled “Strategies for the Greening of Student Pick-Ups During School Dismissal.” The following is a slide of note from the presentation; this slide displays the result of a statistically relevant model to predict the amount of on-site queue storage needed for...

Really interesting post that shows some the difficulties of effective traffic operations from Market Urbanism blog.  I only got through 3 levels of the game before the honking got to me.  I think the game does a good job of showing some of the challenges we face though obviously modern traffic engineers have more tools available to deal with some of these issues (though most urban street...

Came across this interesting research on Jason Kottke’s blog.  http://kottke.org/ As traffic engineers we often tackle congestion by targeting bottle necks with additional capacity or alternate routes.  This study suggests that may not be the optimal answer. http://www.kottke.org/09/07/traffic-and-the-price-of-anarchy Here is a key excerpt from the study. The authors compared the Nash equilibrium...