California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

In order to improve corridor network operations, the vision of integrated corridor management (ICM) is to identify corridor managers who serve as experts for individual corridors, and to enable these managers to oversee corridor operations, to coordinate with partner agencies, and to improve collaborative, multiagency planning. While it makes sense to manage freeways, arterials, and transit in a coordinated way within a corridor, it is less clear how multiple corridors interact with each other, and how incidents and response plans along one corridor impacts a nearby corridor or multiple corridors. This project formulates recommendations and strategies for large scale traffic management and enabling multiple corridor management efforts and/or ICMs to work together. In addition, it identifies situations where conditions on one corridor influences management decisions on another corridor. To accomplish this, both probe data and traditional sensor data are analyzed to answer questions about aggregate traffic patterns on a multi-corridor scale.