Abstract
Questions of location, method, or effectiveness are the prime focuses of academic research about traffic improvement project. However, economic, political, administrative, product concerns are often other aspects of importance when new or innovative traffic control devices (ITCD) are planned for installation to relieve safety problem or provide traffic information to road users. This research develops a procedure of three-staged fussy analytical hierarchical process (FAHP) to support the appraisal of where and when to install devices besides the warrants of MUTCD. This research reveals that the factors concerned follows the order of 1.effectiveness, 2.cost and financial resource, 3.location and environment, 4.product capability, 5.possible political concerns, and lastly, 6.administrative endeavor. After completion of the criteria evaluation, 5 kinds of ITCD were used to test the model.
