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Corridor Traffic Management

When congested traffic conditions occur on one roadway, traffic on adjoining roadways or freeway interchanges in the corridor, are also impacted. Typically, as congestion occurs on one roadway, travelers respond in a variety of ways: finding an alternate route, selecting a different roadway (freeway versus surface street), adjusting their trip to another time of day, or remaining on their current route and enduring the significant delays. These disruptions range in scale, frequency, predictability, duration, and have the potential to impact a number of facilities or modes. A number of promising approaches may enhance how we currently operate the surface transportation system. The proactive use of managed lane strategies, alternate routing of traffic, and proactively managing and controlling traffic within freeway corridors offer are a few useful approaches. These strategies have the potential to achieve significantly greater levels of utilization of the existing roadway capacity, improve travel times, enhance safety, and reliability of travel.

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• About Integrated Corridor Management

Integrated Corridor Management

• Promotional one-pager: Mainstreaming Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) 6-Video Series
• Integrated Corridor Management 6-Video Series - The ICM video series arc follows the development of Integrated Corridor Management in fictitious Alligator City. Emma, the County Traffic Operations Manager, and Wolfgang, head of analysis for the local metropolitan planning organization lead their MPO (Okanahatchee County) through discovery, stakeholder building, and enactment of an ICM congestion solution.
• V1 – What is Integrated Corridor Management, and What Does it Take to Be a Successful Site?
• V2 – How Does ICM Work?
• V3 – Decision Support Systems (DSS) for ICM.
• V4 – Build Smart, Build Steady – Winning Strategies for Building ICM Over Time.
• V5 – Defining Characteristics of ICM.
• V6 – Evaluating Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Deployments
• Integrated Corridor Management: Making the Case to Executive Leadership (Video)
• What is Integrated Corridor Management (Flyer)
• Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Program: Major Achievements, Key Findings, and Outlook (Document)
• Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) – Mainstreaming ICM: An Executive Level Primer (Document)
• Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Ten Attributes Of A Successful ICM Site (Flyer)
• Elements of Business Rules and Decision Support Systems within Integrated Corridor Management: Understanding the Intersection of These Three Components (Document)
• Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office - Integrated Corridor Management Research Archive (Web site)
• Integrated Corridor Management and the Smart Cities Revolution: Leveraging Synergies (Document)
• Integrated Corridor Management and Traffic Incident Management: A Primer (Document)
• Integrated Corridor Management, Managed Lanes, and Congestion Pricing: A Primer (Document)
• Integrated Corridor Management, Transit, and Mobility on Demand (Document)
• Integrated Corridor Management and Freight Opportunities (Document)
• Leveraging the Promise of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles to Improve Integrated Corridor Management and Operations: A Primer (Document)
• Build Smart, Build Steady: Winning Strategies for Building Integrated Corridor Management Over Time (Document)

Other Corridor-Managed Resources

• Planning for Transportation Systems Management and Operations Within Corridors: A Desk Reference
• Multistate Corridor Operations and Management (MCOM) Program and Grantees
• Coordinated Freeway and Arterial Operations Handbook

Contact Us

To obtain more information on the Corridor Traffic Management, please contact:

Neil Spiller
Neil.Spiller@dot.gov
(202) 366-2188

James Colyar
James.Colyar@dot.gov
(360) 753-9408