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Risk Analysis Using Crash and Near-Crash Data Finds a 26 Percent Reduction in Likelihood of a Crash Involving Severe Injuries in a Connected Vehicle Versus a Vehicle with More Traditional Line of Sight System.

METHODOLOGY The study utilized the SHRP2 NDS database that consisted of over 5.5 million trips driven by 3,542 drivers across six sites in the U.S. First, relevant events from the database were…
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04/24/2023

Simulation Study Estimated a Benefit-Cost Ratio Up to 3.37 for the Buffalo-Niagara Integrated Corridor Management Deployment Due to Reduction in Vehicle Hours Traveled, Emissions, and Crashes.

Methodology The calibrated simulation model used in the study included the I-190 corridor from I-90 through downtown Buffalo, across Grand Island, through the Niagara region, and terminating at the…
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05/24/2022

Green Routing System in Buffalo-Niagara Region shows over 16 percent reduction in CO and NOx.

METHODOLOGYThe integrated modeling framework takes the output from TRANSIMS micro-simulator (i.e. the second-by-second vehicle speed trajectories) and feeds that into EPA MOVES model for the purpose…
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09/11/2013

Estimates of the Levelized Annual Costs of the Buffalo-Niagara Integrated Corridor Management Strategies Range from $4.9 to $5.1 Million across the Two Analyzed Deployment Packages.

Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) provides transportation management and operations strategies enabled by intelligent transportation systems (ITS) to optimize the use of existing infrastructure in…
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05/24/2022

Costs to Deploy a Fleet of Six Low-Speed Automated Shuttles Were Estimated to Total $1,365,000 Annually over a Five-Year Deployment.

One category of Automated Vehicles (AVs), low-speed automated shuttles, has garnered interest for the potential to improve mobility particularly in addressing the first- and last- mile problem for…
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01/31/2022

Disseminate Notifications of Emergency Alerts and Travel Bans via Mass Text Messaging to Reach Residents, per Lessons Learned from the December 2022 Buffalo Blizzard.

Enhance the enrollment of wireless emergency alert systems and install physical signage in public locations to ensure emergency notifications reach the majority of residents. Alerts on travel…
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11/20/2023
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Early Warning System (PS11)