Congestion Management Process (2019)

Acknowledgements Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada Board of Commissioners Clark County Commissioner Larry Brown City of Henderson Mayor Debra March City of Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman Clark County Commissioner James Gibson City of North Las Vegas Councilman Isaac Barron City of Mesquite Councilman George Gault City of Las Vegas Councilman Stavros S. Anthony City of Boulder City Mayor Kiernan McManus Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada Metropolitan Planning Organization Staff Chief Executive Officer M.J. Maynard Deputy Chief Executive Officer David Swallow Director of MPO Craig Raborn Manager Transportation Planning Andrew Kjellman Manager Transportation Planning Beth Xie Principal Transportation Planner Chin-Cheng Chen Principal Transportation Planner Mohammad Farhan Principal Transportation Planner Deborah Reardon Senior Transportation Planner Hui Shen Senior Transportation Planner Daniel Fazekas Senior Transportation Planner Lijuan Su Senior Transportation Planner Rush Wickes Transportation Planner, CMP Preparer Grant Shirts All Icons made by Freepik or Eucalyp from www.flaticon.com 2 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................................... 3 ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE PRIMARY SOURCES OF CONGESTION ......................................................................................................... 6 RTC’S 3C CMP .......................................................................................................................................... 8 OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................................................................. 10 FULFILL LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENT ................................................................................................................. 10 MANAGE CONGESTION EFFICIENTLY ............................................................................................................. 12 CMP NETWORK ............................................................................................................................................ 13 NETWORK DEFINITION .................................................................................................................................. 13 PERFORMANCE METRICS ............................................................................................................................. 15 TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITY METRICS .................................................................................................................. 15 SELECTED PERFORMANCE MEASURES ............................................................................................................. 16 DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN ......................................................................................... 21 DATA COLLECTION ...................................................................................................................................... 21 DATA MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................................... 24 DATA INNOVATION ...................................................................................................................................... 26 ANALYTICAL RESULTS ................................................................................................................................... 29 SCOPE OF ANALYSIS .................................................................................................................................... 29 SYSTEM-WIDE OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................................. 29 BOTTLENECK ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................................. 32 CMP DASHBOARD ..................................................................................................................................... 40 STRATEGY TOOLBOX .................................................................................................................................... 42 STRATEGY TIERS ............................................................................................................................................ 42 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN .............................................................................................................................. 48 CONGESTION MANAGEMENT FUNDING ......................................................................................................... 48 CONGESTION MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ...................................................................................................... 50 EVALUATE EFFECTIVENESS ........................................................................................................................... 67 TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL FORECASTS ............................................................................................................ 67 CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................................. 70 APPENDIX A: DETAILED CORRIDOR EVALUATIONS .................................................................................... 71 THE FOUR DIMENSIONS OF CONGESTION ....................................................................................................... 71 I-15 ........................................................................................................................................................... 73 US-95/I-515 .............................................................................................................................................. 75 CR-215/I-215- BELTWAY ............................................................................................................................ 77 RANCHO DR ............................................................................................................................................... 79 MARTIN L KING BLVD ................................................................................................................................... 81 APPENDIX B: REPORT REFERENCE ............................................................................................................... 83 LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................................... 83 LIST OF MAPS .............................................................................................................................................. 85 LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................................................. 86 ENDNOTES .................................................................................................................................................. 87 Table of Contents 3 4 Abstract This document, Congestion Management Process (CMP), provides a policy making reference for Southern Nevadans impacted by traffic congestion. Being a living document, it is continually edited and updated over time to respond to changes in system performance, community values, statute and technology. It is managed by the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) which serves as the home to the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), the policy body responsible for regional transportation planning in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Planning Area. The RTC Board of Commissioners approved the 2019 Annual Report of the Congestion Management Process on March 12th, 2020. The CMP emphasizes the feasibility of cost efficient strategies such as Travel Demand Management (TDM) and Transportation Systems Management (TSM). TDM focuses on user behavior modification strategies to reduce single- occupancy vehicles (SOV) and shift travel away from peak periods. TSM involves effective management of existing infrastructure through intersection improvements, signalization changes and freeway optimization. The report begins with an examination of the causes of traffic congestion and the underlying objectives of the CMP. Road network performance is reported using federally required metrics such as regional travel time reliability and peak hour excessive delay. The ancillary congestion management performance measures of bus on-time performance and incident clearance time are also treated. In addition to performance reporting, the report defines the network of study and describes methods of data collection. Collected data leverages travel time reliability metrics to allow for analysis which varies from the traditional approach of projecting future traffic volumes and determining its ratio to current capacity. Travel time reliability metrics and bottleneck severity metrics create a history of traffic on Southern Nevada’s road network and is a reference for where and when congestion has occurred overtime. This history is easily accessed

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