Highway Traffic and Safety Analyses Lecture 9: Highway

Capacity Manual 2000

(original presentation by R. Dowling revised and expanded by A. Tarko)

Purdue University School of Civil Engineering West Lafayette

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Lecture Objectives
To highlight the content of the Year 2000 edition of the Highway Capacity Manual. To help identify suitable procedures in the Manual things and properly apply to traffic operations problems.

Purpose of the HCM

To provide transportation practitioners and researchers with a consistent system of techniques for the evaluation of the quality of service on highway and street facilities. HCM does not set policies regarding a desirable or appropriate quality of service
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HCM 2000 Formats

Book
Five parts, 35 chapters

CD-ROM
Book Audio-visual tutorials CD-ROM presentation

HCM 2000 Table of Contents

Part I - Overview Part II - Concepts Part III - Methodologies Part IV - Corridor and Areawide Analyses Part V - Simulation and Other Models

Part II. Concepts

Describes factors affecting LOS. Identifies required input. Suggests default values for input. Provides service volume tables

HCM Components

HCM Components and Structure

Chapter 9 is Your Gateway to the HCM
Exhibit 9-1 lists facility types and components. The same exhibit gives Part II and Part III chapter references for each facility type.

Chapter 9 Provides Guidance on:

Use of defaults. Use of or development of service volume tables. Precision and accuracy of results.
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Chapter 9 Structure of HCM

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Chapter 9 Structure of HCM

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Part III. Methodologies

Provides Methodologies to Compute:
Level of Service, Delay, Queues

Contents
Freeway Facilities (4 chapters) Urban Streets (3 chapters) Highways (2 chapters) Pedestrian & Bikeways (1 chapter) Transit (1 chapter)
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Intersection Control

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Required Data for Signals

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Level of Service Criteria

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Level of Service Criteria

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Transit LOS Criteria

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Part IV. Corridor/Areawide

Purpose:
How to adapt HCM to planning models

Multi-Modal Corridor Analysis

Computation of intensity, duration, extent of congestion (for performance measures)

Areawide Analysis
Capacity analysis for planning models Speed-flow and node delay equations for models
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Part V. Simulation
Purpose
Guidance on the use of simulation for conditions beyond the bounds of Part III.

Contents
Chapter 31. Simulation and Other Models Introduction to simulation techniques

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Using the HCM 2000

1. Determine Facility Type
See Exhibit 9-1, Chapter 5 Definitions Exhibit 29-2 provides summary.

2. Review Concepts, Inputs, Defaults

Review relevant Part II chapter.

3. Conduct Analysis
Apply relevant Part III chapter.

4. Interpretation of Results
See Chapter 9 discussion on precision. See end of Part III Chapter for sensitivity discussion
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CD ROM Tutorials
4. Delay 3:35 9. Control Delay at Signalized Intersections 5:50 20. Bicycle Events and Hindrance 3:05 21. Bicycle LOS by Facility Types 4:10 32. Transit Quality of Service 5:05

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Highway Capacity Software

No official TRB approved software FHWA sponsored software (2)
Windows (Catalina), EZ-HCS written in JAVA

Other developers
McTrans, Strong Concepts, Dowling, KLD, etc.

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