Multimodal Level of Service
This survey was published in Volume 23, Number 3 of the Urban Transportation Monitor on April 6, 2009
Survey consists of responses from 62 city and/or county traffic engineers regarding multimodal level of service. Questions/topics include:
- How satisfied are you with the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) LOS methodology, providing six levels of quality of service based on capacity?
- What are the main reasons for your answer to the previous question?
- Should LOS be based on traveler perceptions?
- What are the main reasons for your answer to the previous question?
- What should LOS be based on?
- How many transportation modes do you believe the concept of LOS is applicable to -- auto only or all highway modes?
- Does your agency believe that auto, bicycle, pedestrian, and transit LOS should all be evaluated on urban streets?
- What are the main reasons for your answer to the previous question?
- How should the LOS be reported for the different modes using an urban street?
- Should each mode be treated independently (current HCM approach) or is it better to use each a simultaneous, interactive multimodal LOS approach?
- What are the main reasons for your answer to the previous question?
- Do you believe your agency’s engineering department would be supportive of a multimodal LOS approach or would it be more supportive of a traditional auto only approach?
- If a professionally acceptable multimodal LOS approach(es) was available do you believe your agency would attempt to use it?
- Would it be desirable for each mode to have independent nationally recognized approach (e.g., Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual) or would it be desirable to have the modal approaches contained in one nationally recognized document (e.g., HCM, AASHTO’s “Green Book”[Geometric Design of Urban Streets and Highways])?
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