Highway Capacity Manual Analyses Made Simple: Introducing the HCM Reference Guide

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The live event has ended. Recording now available to view on-demand.

This webinar is led by McTrans Center in partnership with ITE.

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Webinar Description:
For decades, the Highway Capacity Manual has been an essential standard for evaluating the capacity and level of service of several road elements. As the methods evolved, so did the complexity of its calculations. The current release (7th Edition) has 38 chapters and 2,500+ pages, which may be intimidating for some professionals who do not work with the manual on a daily basis. The HCM Reference Guide, published in 2022, is a concise document intended to provide essential knowledge for agencies or professionals analyzing or reviewing studies based on the HCM. It supplements, fills gaps, further explains, and provides key insights into some complex procedures that are often misunderstood. This webinar will provide an overview of the HCM Reference Guide and discuss potential applications of this document.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the scope of HCM analysis.
Know how to review an HCM analysis based on FHWA’s published “HCM Reference Guide.”
Learn common mistakes performed in HCM analyses.

Policies:
The webinar recording will be made available on-demand it will have a shelf life of 60 days to register before it is archived. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their PDH credit certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the PDH credit certificate opportunity is forfeited.

Contributors

Dr. Bob Aghdashi, Director | McTrans Center | University of Florida Transportation Institute | Gainesville, FL, USA

Dr. Bob Aghdashi is the director of the McTrans Center at the University of Florida Transportation Institute. His areas of expertise include traffic operations on surface streets, simulation analysis, and software development. He focuses on the application of HCM methods to the real-world use cases. He has been involved with the TRB Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service for more than ten years, and now he serves as the chair for the freeways and highways subcommittee. He has contributed to several projects developing new methods for the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), including NCHRP 3-96, NCHRP 3-115, SHRP2-L08, and a number of UTC-funded research projects.
Fabio Sasahara, Ph.D PMP, Associate Director | University of Florida Transportation Institute | Gainesville, FL, USA

Fabio Sasahara, PhD, PMP is an Associate Director at McTrans Center at the University of Florida, with extensive experience in applying and developing new HCM methods. At McTrans Center, he leads training programs on the Highway Capacity Manual and Highway Capacity Software. Fabio is actively involved with ITE at Section, District, and International levels; he is the faculty advisor at the University of Florida student chapter and is also a graduate from the LeadershipITE class of 2022. He is also actively involved with the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee at TRB, where he currently serves as the User Liaison Lead.

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Contributors

Dr. Bob Aghdashi, Director | McTrans Center | University of Florida Transportation Institute | Gainesville, FL, USA

Fabio Sasahara, Ph.D PMP, Associate Director | University of Florida Transportation Institute | Gainesville, FL, USA