Join Cara and Bobbi as they take a detour over the river and through the woods (since the road they usually take to the LibGuide Petting Zoo is closed due to construction).
Featured Guide: Exploring Individual Travel Modeling to Account for Road Network Disruption
This LibGuide comes to you from the National Transportation Knowledge Network and Laura Wilt of Oregon Department of Transportation Library Services.
The platform for this guide is provided through the National Transportation Library
You never know what knowledge paths the Knowledge Management experts at NTKN will lead you down (or send you on a detour with if there is a road disruption). Did you ever wonder how a disruption in the road network impacts traffic flow? Do individual behavior and choices make a difference? Read the studies in this guide to find out.
Guide Encounter:
The collapse of a bridge, a major earthquake, road closures, or perhaps a major sporting event is coming to your area. There are many big questions, and one you may not know the answer to is, “How will this affect traffic flow?” This guide has solved that dilemma by providing you with research to make evidence-based decisions and plans.
What do you get when there are three giraffes on the road?
A giraffic jam!
This guide only contains one page, but what a page it is! It contains scholarly research from the databases of Transportation Research Board (TRB) Transport Research International Documentation (TRID), Scopus, Google Scholar, and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Library. Hover over any of the links to read a comprehensive description of the resource. There are even some embedded full-text studies in the guide itself, such as “Empirical Studies on Road Traffic Response to Capacity Reduction” and “A Multi-resolution Approach to Investigate the Impacts of Pre-planned Road Capacity Reduction Based on Smartphone GPS Trajectory Data.”
The top tab examines studies using traffic models and the tab underneath that provides resources on studies that use individual patterns. A tab on the left lists international studies that explore vulnerability analysis, and several studies in the center tab look at individual patterns following a bridge collapse.
Why was the squirrel late for work?
Traffic was nuts!
Your intrepid Resource Whisperers took a look at “Traffic Flow and Road User Impacts of the Collapse of the I-35W Bridge over the Mississippi River.” The study authors found that following an unexpected disruption that drivers avoid the disruption site until the perceived risk of the area gradually diminishes. Changes in departure time are also observed. The study also found that preplanned disruptions have much smaller impacts.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
She wanted to be the next research subject for a study in “Exploring Individual Travel Modeling to Account for Road Network Disruption.”
About the Authors:
Cara Marcus is the resource center manager of National RTAP
Bobbi deMontigny is the librarian at the Montana Department of Transportation
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