Road Closure Scenarios

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Forecast the impact of closing a road to understand the impact on travel behavior. This self-service application enables rapid, efficient, and iterative forecast planning with custom road closures. Use Road Closure Scenarios for safety and construction planning, large-scale and small-scale event planning, emergency planning and preparedness, and major infrastructure updates.

Road Closure Scenarios allow users to simulate traffic patterns with custom road closures in order to understand the impact on travel behavior and the network. Simply select the desired road to be closed within the map-based interface and the application will visualize traffic diversion patterns and display dynamic charts and visualizations showing forecasted impacts.

The application’s key features include:

Interactive Map-Based Tooling: Easily designate roads for closure, and visualize traffic diversion patterns and changes in travel time for affected routes
Comprehensive Analysis: Dynamic charts and visualizations showing forecasted impacts
‍Collaborate and Share: Share insights with your colleagues for review and collaboration

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With Road Closure Scenarios, unlock workflows like:

Identify Traffic Diversion Patterns: Find alternative routes with ease and understand congestion impacts
Estimate Impacts on Daily Travel: Quantify changes in travel volumes, trip distances, mode split, and more
Understand Socio-Economic Impacts: Identify who is most impacted by these closures and how
Quantify Changes in Public Transit Usage: Measure and identify areas with highest transit demand‍
Assess Environmental Impact: Understand changes in emissions and vehicle miles traveled (VMT)

MassDOT: The Sumner Tunnel is undergoing a restoration that began in the spring of 2022. This work requires the tunnel to be closed to traffic periodically. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation performed a Road Closure Scenario to quantify traffic diversions and to understand people impacted.

City of San Ramon: In order to install a bike and pedestrian overcrossing, the City of San Ramon will need to stop traffic on Bollinger Canyon Road for nine days, forcing roughly 40,000 trips to be rerouted each day. The City ran a free road closure Scenario to better understand the potential impact of rerouting these 40,000 trips and inform appropriate diversion plans and signal modifications given the forecasted traffic impacts. The Closure helped identify where the majority of trips would be rerouted, as well as where traffic would increase and by how much.