Kittelson and Associates will offer a FREE 2 hour workshop in Oakland, CA on Thurs, March 2nd, 2017. The workshop will cover freeway analysis methods and software in the new edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) 6th edition, released in fall 2016.
FREEVAL is a powerful computational tool that models freeway operations and congestion in a single day, as well as whole-year reliability context. The tool automates estimation of congestion impacts from freeway bottlenecks, work zones, incidents, and weather, and can then explore mitigation of impacts through active traffic and demand management strategies, including ramp metering, hard shoulder running, incident management, traffic diversion, and others. The tool automates computations in the HCM 6th Edition freeway facility and freeway reliability networks, and is the official computational tool that has been used to develop and test the methods.
The focus of this two-hour workshop is on application and use cases of the methods to real-world sites and problems, ranging from interchange analyses, to work zone lane closure and diversion scenarios, up to whole-year reliability assessment of hard shoulder running and ramp metering strategies.
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm: Registration & Introductions
3:45 pm – 5:30 am: FREEVAL presentation:
- Introduction to Freeway Facilities Method;
- Overview of the new changes in the HCM 6th edition;
- New capabilities: Managed Lanes, Reliability, ATDM, WZ;
- Ramp metering, hard shoulder running, and other strategies;
- Use cases for application of the method;
- Discussion
5:30 pm – 6:00pm: Happy Hour - appetizers and beverages provided
This will be held at the Oakland office of Kittelson & Associates. There is no cost to attend this workshop. Seats are limited for this hands on event. Please bring your laptop with you so you are able to work with the software.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Dave Mills at (510) 433-8087 or by email at dmills@kittelson.com
We look forward to seeing you there!
Dr. Bastian Schroeder is a Principal Engineer with Kittelson & Associates, Inc. and manages the company’s Wilmington, NC office. He served as Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI on over 25 funded projects, for sponsors including FHWA, NCHRP, SHRP2, ITE, NCDOT and others. Recently, he oversaw the development of all freeway chapters in the 6th Edition of Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) expected in 2016. Dr. Schroeder has authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings. He is a member of the TRB Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (current chair of the uninterrupted flow group), the TRB committee on roundabouts, the TRB Simulation Systems Manual Task Force, and he chairs the Simulation and Capacity Model users Group (SimCap) for NCSITE.