Arterial Management Program
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21st Century Operations Using 21st Century Technologies

Arterial Management Program

New Guidance

Traffic Signal Management Plans - An Objectives and Performance based approach for Improving the Design Operations and Maintenance of Traffic Signal Systems (FHWA-HOP-15-038) provides step-by-step instructions for documenting current activities, relating them to the agency’s goals and transportation objectives, and offers a structure that shows how the activities of all staff involved in traffic signal management support those objectives.

Traffic Signal Timing Manual Second Edition, NCHRP Report 812 - Discusses a multimodal, objectives and performance based approach to development of traffic signal timing to address the needs of pedestrian, bicycles, transit and automobiles.

New Training

The National Highway Institute is offering four New traffic signal courses:

  1. Traffic Signal Timing Concepts
  2. Systems Engineering for Signal Systems Including Adaptive Control
  3. Performance Management of Traffic Signal Systems
  4. Successful Traffic Signal Management: The Basic Service Approach

Arterial roadways are a crucial link in the national transportation system that provide regional mobility and access to land use that is vital to our economy and quality of life. Arterials account for more than one million lane miles of roadway, connecting local and collector roads to the National Highway System. Over 3000 State and local agencies are responsible for the management and operation of the estimated 311,000 traffic signals that are spread across urban, suburban and rural communities throughout the United States. The objective of the Arterial Management Program is to advance management practices and operations strategies that promote the safe and efficient use of arterial roadway capacity to reduce congestion.

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