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NCHRP Report 618:

Cost-Effective Performance Measures for Travel Time Delay, Variation, and Reliability
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Publication Year:2008
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 618: Cost-Effective Performance Measures for Travel Time Delay, Variation, and Reliability explores a framework and methods to predict, measure, and report travel time, delay, and reliability from a customer-oriented perspective. ...
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Front Matter i-ix  
Summary 1-3 (skim)
1.1 Why Measure Travel-Time Performance? 4-4 (skim)
1.2 How to Use the Guidebook 5-5 (skim)
1.4 Measuring Mobility and Reliability 6-9 (skim)
2.2 Measure Selection 10-12 (skim)
2.4 Individual Measures 13-16 (skim)
2.5 Area Measures 17-17 (skim)
2.6 Basic Data Elements 18-18 (skim)
2.7 Definition and Discussion of Speed Terms 19-19 (skim)
2.8 Other Data Elements 20-20 (skim)
2.9 Time Periods for Analysis 21-21 (skim)
2.11 The Right Measure for the Type of Analysis 22-22 (skim)
2.12 Index Measure Considerations 23-24 (skim)
3.3 Data Collection Sampling Plan 25-29 (skim)
3.4 Collecting Data from TMCs 30-31 (skim)
3.5 Processing/Quality Control 32-33 (skim)
4.1 Introduction 34-34 (skim)
4.4 Determining if Conditions Are Significantly Better 35-35 (skim)
4.5 What to Do If the Null Hypothesis Cannot Be Rejected 36-36 (skim)
5.4 Comparing Field Data to Performance Standards 37-38 (skim)
5.6 Diagnosing the Causes 39-40 (skim)
6.2 Estimating/Forecasting Travel Time 41-47 (skim)
6.4 Estimating Reliability 48-50 (skim)
7.2 Defining the Problem 51-51 (skim)
7.3 Generation of Project Alternatives for Analysis 52-52 (skim)
7.5 Evaluation of Alternatives 53-53 (skim)
7.7 Evaluate Effectiveness of Implemented Solutions 54-54 (skim)
8.4 Creating a Performance-Based Decision-Making Environment 55-58 (skim)
8.6 Typical Planning Applications 59-68 (skim)
References 69-69 (skim)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications 70-70 (skim)
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 618: Cost-Effective Performance Measures for Travel Time Delay, Variation, and Reliability explores a framework and methods to predict, measure, and report travel time, delay, and reliability from a customer-oriented perspective.

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