A Tour Across America s Managed Lanes Mike Heiligenstein, Executive Director Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority IBTTA Global Tolling Summit; Salzburg, Austria September 6, 2018
The Rise of Managed Lanes in American Urban Centers Urban centers face major constraints Urban sprawl, suburbanization, exurbanization Affordable housing HOV obsolete Constrained corridor (limited land available) Environmental impacts Unlike Europe, America lacks a reliable transit system in most urban centers Resistance to carpools, transit, etc. Funding and right of way needs
Why Managed Lanes? Long-term congestion management tool that gets more people moving faster Reliable routes Social equity Smart corridors Incident management Innovative financing to meet regional needs Evolution of managed lanes operation approaches HOV conversion to HOT Reversible lanes Added capacity 23 U.S. Code 129 - Toll roads, bridges, tunnels, and ferries
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON I-405 Express Toll Lanes 5 miles Dynamic/variable congestion pricing Rates range from 75 cents to $10 Transit, vanpools, registered carpools, and motorcycles ride free Toll revenue is already funding future improvements
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON SR 520 Bridge Replacement 12.8 miles of highway $4.1 billion-dollar investment Bridge replacement over Lake Washington 7,708.5 feet Connection with HOV corridor and inclusion of bicycle and pedestrian walkways Replaced the original 53-year old SR 520 floating bridge as the world s longest floating bridge
BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA Bay Area Express Lanes More than 80 miles Variable toll pricing Planned connections to several tolled bridges and between Managed Lanes Cooperation between multiple agencies with tolling authority There are 500 miles of planned Express Lanes by 2035
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA 91 Express Lanes 18 miles Set congestion pricing Rates range from $1.65 to $10.15 Registered carpools, qualified motorcycles, and qualified clean air vehicles receive a discount on tolls When it opened in 1995, the 91 Express Lanes became the first privately financed toll road in the US
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA I-15 Express Lanes 20 miles Dynamic/variable congestion pricing Rates range from 75 cents to $8 Transit, vanpools, carpools, clean air vehicles, and motorcycles ride free When near full capacity, HOV ONLY is displayed on the overhead signs and solo drivers and not allowed
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH I-15 Express Lanes 72 miles Set congestion pricing Rates range from 25 cents to $14 ($2 per zone) Transit, carpools, C decal vehicles, and motorcycles ride free UDOT plans to extend the express lanes
DENVER, COLORADO I-25 Central Express Lanes 7 miles Dynamic congestion pricing Rates range 85 cents to $5.10 HOV+3 with transponders and motorcycles ride free The express lane is reversible; running Denver-bound in the morning and Boulder or north in the afternoons
DALLAS, TEXAS LBJ TEXpress Lanes 13 miles Dynamic/variable congestion pricing Rates range from about 70 cents to about $4 a segment Registered HOV, carpools, and motorcycles receive a discount on their tolls Just over 7 million people live in the Dallas- Fort Worth region, and more than 4 million different vehicles have used the LBJ and NTE TEXpress Lanes to date
HOUSTON, TEXAS I-10 Katy Freeway 12 miles 2.8 billion Toll rates range from 40 cents to $3.20 METRO buses and motorcycles ride free; HOV drivers ride free during HOV hours First multi-lane electronic tollway in the nation with full design standards operating in the right-of-way of an interstate highway and providing multiple entrances and exit locations to drivers.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA I-85 Express Lanes 16 miles Dynamic/variable congestion pricing Rates range from a few cents to $12+ Registered transit, 3+ person carpools, motorcycles, and registered Alternative Fuel Vehicles ride free GDOT plans to extend the express lanes
WASHINGTON, DC 495 Express Lanes 14 miles Dynamic/variable congestion pricing Rates range from 20 cents to more than $30+ Transit, registered carpools, and motorcycles ride free 23 minutes is the average travel time savings during rush hour
MIAMI, FLORIDA 95 Express 21 miles Dynamic/variable congestion pricing Rates range from 50 cents to $10+ Transit, registered carpools, registered hybrid vehicles, registered vanpools, and motorcycles ride free HOV lanes on I-95 were converted to express lanes
AUSTIN, TEXAS MoPac Express Lane 11 miles $230 million Variable toll pricing Unique drivers: ~ 597,000 in the first 6 months Most users, approximately 94 percent, used the express lane 10 times or fewer during the first 6 months. Fifty six percent of drivers used the lane only once.
Express Benefits Express Lane drivers move up to 21 miles per hour (34 kilometers per hour) faster save up to 25 minutes in travel time compared to general-purpose lane drivers Transit Benefits Registered vanpools and transit ride free Average increase of 40 percent in express bus ridership
Express Lanes Benefit all Lanes Improved operations corridor-wide Same number of non-tolled lanes have been preserved Express Lane carries up to 1,800 vehicles per hour Frees up capacity in non-tolled general-purpose lanes A Smart Corridor keeps traffic moving Traffic & Incident Management (TIM) Center Finely-tuned algorithm Increased use of ITS Monitoring allows for swift incident clearance, emergency response Higher safety performance
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