Date of Award
Spring 5-2020
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Transportation
Department
Planning and Urban Studies
Major Professor
Stich, Bethany
Second Advisor
Tian, Guang
Third Advisor
Short, Carol
Fourth Advisor
Amdal, James
Abstract
Using New Orleans as a case study, this thesis explores the conflation of vehicle probe data with various vessel datasets to characterize the interactions between container vessels and motor vehicles as it relates to interstate congestion in a port city. The case study investigates the impact of container vessel presence/size, fluctuations in container volumes, and container on barge services on roadway congestion. The exploration relies on comparing different conditions using cumulative distribution functions and the Innovative Trend Analysis. The results showed that fusing vehicle and vessel data is achievable and appropriate, but temporal and data completeness issues can effect results. The results also showed that by joining these modally disparate datasets together and analyzing them as one, additional context is added to discussions related to transportation operations and investment decision-making through either the confirmation or disproval of perceptions or expected results related to container truck traffic on an interstate.
Recommended Citation
Zeringue, Kirk, "Suitability of Fusing Vehicle Probe Data and Vessel Data to Contextualize the Multimodal Interaction Impacts on Corridor Mobility – a New Orleans Case Study" (2020). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2778.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2778
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