Impact of transportation demand management (TDM) elements on managed lanes toll prices.

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• Creators:
  Pessaro, Brian ; Buddenbrock, Patrick
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Transit Research (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Express Lanes General Purpose Lanes Level Of Service Managed Lanes Ridesharing Simulation Traffic Data Traffic Flow Travel Demand Management Variable Tolls
• Publication/ Report Number:
  BDV26 977¿02
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  This research involved a simulation comparing three days of actual traffic data for the I-95 Express
  
  Lanes and General Purpose Lanes in Miami, Florida to a hypothetical scenario where all transportation
  
  demand management (TDM) activities and toll exemptions were eliminated. The purpose of the
  
  research was to quantify the extent to which carpooling, vanpooling, and transit usage contribute to
  
  better traffic flow in the I-95 corridor. The express lane analysis revealed a slight degradation in level of
  
  service (LOS) and a moderate increase in tolls in the southbound direction (+$0.41). It revealed a slight
  
  improvement in LOS and a slight decrease in tolls in the northbound direction (-$0.19). A phenomenon
  
  that occurred was that a large number of inherently low emission vehicles (ILEVs), which are toll
  
  exempt, opted out of the express lanes in the hypothetical scenario. The increase in express lane volume
  
  from former carpoolers, vanpoolers, and transit riders reverting to single occupant status was often
  
  offset by even larger volumes of ILEVs leaving the express lanes. Although the traffic impact to the
  
  express lanes was mild, the impact to the general purpose lanes was more severe. In the hypothetical
  
  scenario, the general purpose lanes operated at LOS F 22 percent more of time in the southbound
  
  direction and 8 percent more of the time in the northbound direction. Furthermore, the traffic densities
  
  in the general purpose lanes increased 100 percent of the time in the southbound direction and 94
  
  percent of the time in the northbound direction.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
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