Recurring Traffic Bottlenecks: A Primer
This online engineering course focuses on relieving recurring congestion chokepoints (as opposed to nonrecurring congestion causes) and the operational influences that cause them. Alternatives such as widening, lengthening, retiming, metering, or bypassing problem areas to unclog them can often be done with lower cost and less intensive means than required by completely rebuilding the system. These options and other low cost alternatives are described in the course. Examples of how some state agencies are dealing with bottlenecks are presented.
Although many of the nation’s traffic bottlenecks must be addressed through costly major construction projects or expensive alternatives such as high-occupancy vehicle lanes, dynamic pricing, or transit alternatives, a significant opportunity exists for applying operational and low-cost solutions at spot-specific locations. This course is based on a primer produced by the Localized Bottleneck Reduction program of the Federal Highway Administration.
This 3 PDH online course is intended for transportation engineers and planners who are involved in the improvement of traffic bottlenecks.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Identifying and assessing bottlenecks
- Understanding how bottlenecks form and disperse
- Understanding merging at recurring bottlenecks
- Learning the principles of effective traffic-lane merging
- Knowing how to evaluate low-cost bottleneck improvement strategies
- Being aware how some specific state agencies are dealing with some specific bottlenecks
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review U.S. Federal Highway Administration Report No. FHWA-HOP-12-012, “Recurring Traffic Bottlenecks: A Primer, Focus on Low-Cost Operational Improvements,” by R. A. Margiotta, and N. Spiller, April, 2012.
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty (20) questions to earn 3 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on this DOT FHA publication.
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