Ramp Management Strategies
This online engineering PDH course introduces and describes four commonly used strategies that may be implemented to better manage traffic on and adjacent to freeway ramps. In doing so, this course lays the foundation from which practitioners may successfully develop, select, operate and maintain strategies and plans.
These four strategies give agencies the ability to control the rate that traffic is allowed to enter the freeway facility; temporarily or permanently restrict traffic flow, provide priority to special vehicle uses, and implement treatments at the ramp-arterial terminal to improve traffic operations on and along ramps and adjacent arterials. For each strategy, a number of associated techniques and approaches exist, some of which will prove to be better than others at fulfilling agency goals and objectives.
This 4 PDH online course is applicable to traffic engineers, transportation planners, conceptual and detail designers, and other technical professionals who are interested in gaining a better understanding in ramp management strategies.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Familiarizing with the four basic strategies used to manage traffic on freeway entrance and exit ramps
- Understanding of what each ramp management strategy entails and the benefits and impacts of implementing each
- Identifying where ramp metering strategies have been applied and the results that strategies produced
- Understanding the unique issues associated with each strategy and why these issues are important
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review Chapter 5, "Ramp Management Strategies" of the Federal Highway Administration Publication FHWA-HOP-06-001, "Ramp Management and Control Handbook".
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