The Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) historically has been among the most important reference guides used by transportation professionals seeking a systematic basis for evaluating the capacity, level of service, and performance measures for elements of the surface transportation system, particularly highways but also other modes. The objective of this project was to determine how data and information on the impacts of differing causes of nonrecurrent congestion (incidents, weather, work zones, special events, etc.) in the context of highway capacity can be incorporated into the performance measure estimation procedures contained in the HCM. The methodologies contained in the HCM for predicting delay, speed, queuing, and other performance measures for alternative highway designs are not currently sensitive to traffic management techniques and other operation/design measures for reducing nonrecurrent congestion. A further objective was to develop methodologies to predict travel time reliability on selected types of facilities and within corridors. This project developed new analytical procedures and prepared chapters about freeway facilities and urban streets for potential incorporation of travel-time reliability into the HCM. The methods are embodied in two computational engines, and a final report documents the research. This zip file contains comma separated value (.csv) files of data to support SHRP 2 report S2-L08-RW-1, Incorporating travel time reliability into the Highway Capacity Manual. Zip size is 1.83 MB. Files were accessed in Microsoft Excel 2016. Data will be preserved as is. To view publication see: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/3606

The goal of the SHRP 2 Project L33 Validation of Urban Freeway Models was to assess and enhance the predictive travel time reliability models developed in the SHRP 2 Project L03, Analytic Procedures for Determining the Impacts of Reliability Mitigation Strategies. SHRP 2 Project L03, which concluded in 2010, developed two categories of reliability models to be used for the estimation or prediction of travel time reliability within planning, programming, and systems management contexts: data-rich and data-poor models. The objectives of Project L33 were the following: • The first was to validate the most important models – the “Data Poor” and “Data Rich” models with new datasets. • The second objective was to assess the validation outcomes to recommend potential enhancements. • The third was to explore enhancements and develop a final set of predictive equations. • The fourth was to validate the enhanced models. • The last was to develop a clear set of application guidelines for practitioner use of the project outputs. The datasets in these 5 zip files are in support of SHRP 2 Report S2-L33-RW-1, Validation of Urban Freeway Models, https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/3604 The 5 zip files contain a total of 60 comma separated value (.csv) files. The compressed zip files total 3.8 GB in size. The files have been uploaded as-is; no further documentation was supplied. These files can be unzipped using any zip compression/decompression software. The files can be read in any simple text editor. [software requirements] Note: Data files larger than 1GB each. Direct data download links: L03-01: https://doi.org/10.21949/1500858 L03-02: https://doi.org/10.21949/1500868 L03-03: https://doi.org/10.21949/1500869 L03-04: https://doi.org/10.21949/1500870 L03-05: https://doi.org/10.21949/1500871