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Chicago
Case Study Final Report
California and ten other States and Honda R & D in
the U.S. have joined forces through a pooled fund effort
to establish a CVHAS program to improve transportation
system performance. Case Studies are being utilized to
conduct analyses to explore the opportunities for CVHAS
applications to trucks and buses. The sites chosen for
the first case study includes a bus rapid transit
circulator system in Chicago, Illinois, an intermodal
freight interchange system in the port of Chicago, and a
straddle carrier system in the Port of Tacoma,
Washington.
This project will be performed jointly by PATH and University of
Illinois, Chicago to conduct studies of applications of CVHAS in
specific sites in order to define system operating concepts, system
designs, institutional opportunities and constraints and system
benefits and costs to the various stakeholders, as well as to
society as a whole.
The results of the case studies that are focused on the
solution of actual transportation problems can provide a
basis for focusing technical decisions and refining
system design trade-offs through the report and
documentation of system design and evaluation of
benefits and costs. Moreover, Caltrans will use the
results of the studies to show the benefits of CVHAS as
part of outreach message for a demonstration of transit
and truck automation by PATH and California DOT
scheduled for 2003. In turn, this will show Caltrans’
commitment to traffic congestion relief while stimulating
broader interest in CVHAS.
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