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WELCOME. The HOT Lanes: Revenue and Enforcement Concerns Web briefing will begin at 12 noon Eastern BEFORE WE GET STARTED……

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  1. WELCOME The HOT Lanes: Revenue and Enforcement Concerns Web briefing will begin at 12 noon Eastern BEFORE WE GET STARTED…… • Identify yourself by typing in the *RED* number into your touchtone phone key pad. This number is found in the gray “Dialing Instructions” box at the bottom of your screen. • Turn off pop-up blockers and other programs running on your computer. • If you have technical difficulties dial *10* or 1-800-305-5208 to connect directly to the Genesys help desk.

  2. HOUSEKEEPING • All participant phone lines are muted. • Questions may be asked via the Chat Room. • If you have technical difficulties dial *10* on your touch tone phone to connect directly to the Genesys help desk.

  3. PRESENTERS Dennis Simpson Maryland Transportation Authority Kenneth R. Buckeye Minnesota Department of Transportation Patrick DeCorla-Souza Federal Highway Administration Ginger Goodin Texas Transportation Institute Don Samdahl - Moderator

  4. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative Dennis Simpson Maryland Transportation Authority

  5. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative • The basics • Maryland Express Toll Lane projects are underway • One in construction and five in projects planning. • Planning options include adding lanes and in some instances converting existing lanes on major highways. • Express toll lanes will give motorists the option of paying a fee to drive in separate, relatively free-flowing highway lanes whenever they need it the most. • Tolls will be collected 100 percent electronically at highway speeds. • Toll rates will vary based on demand—by day and time of day. Fees will increase when the lanes are relatively full and decrease when the lanes have extra capacity.

  6. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative • Vision • Provide a new type of transportation service with 24/7 reliable congestion-free travel for time-sensitive trips. • Create infrastructure for regional express bus service along the busiest commuting routes. • Provide increased roadway capacity along the most severely congested transportation corridors. • Provide a sustainable solution and long-term congestion relief. • Address congestion on the highway system, decades sooner than traditional approaches would allow.

  7. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative • Objectives: • Offer reliable and predictable travel times and choices. • Promote transit solutions. • Build sustainable highway capacity sooner than otherwise feasible. • Develop an integrated highway system that optimizes efficiency and maximizes flexibility. • Improve air quality and gain other environmental benefits. • Promote public safety, reduce incidence response times and improve work zone safety. • Take advantage of technological advances.

  8. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative • HOV Enforcement Challenges • High violation rates, i.e., I-270 HOV lanes have a greater than 20 percent average violation rate. • No technological solution available for enforcement. • Lack of space for safe enforcement action. • High enforcement costs.

  9. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative • Why not HOT lanes? • HOT lanes cannot be expected to raise enough funds to pay a significant portion of the facility development, construction and operation and maintenance costs. • HOV free would absorb capacity and remove ability for revenue to pay for the improvements. Eventually, HOV free would fully congest the lanes—not a sustainable option. • Technology is not available to enforce occupancy restrictions without visual inspection.

  10. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative • Why not HOT lanes (continued)? • Right-of-way for enforcement areas–additional impacts and significant costs. • High cost to keep police officers on stand-by for visual inspection for occupancy. • When vehicles are pulled over, there is a tendency for motorists to slow down and look at the scene, which has adverse impacts on congestion.

  11. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative • ETL Benefits: • Transit solutions • Public transit would benefit from quicker and more reliable trips. • Public transit vehicles would use ETL at no cost. • Attract riders who previously drove, but at a lower cost than driving in the ETL as an SOV. • Encourage HOV ride-sharing through ETL cost-sharing. • Safety • Improve traffic flow conditions and reduce congestion related crashes. • Avoid enforcement related distractions and associated crashes. • Opportunities to manage the facilities in combination with the general purpose lanes for incident response, work zone management and security-related re-routing and traffic management.

  12. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative • ETL Benefits continued: • Environmental • Maintenance of improvements to corridor-wide average speeds, which will improve air quality. • Continued incentive for carpools and vanpools to use ETLs. • ETLS can be managed to accommodate traffic volumes well into the future, beyond the life of general purpose lanes, thus reducing the potential impacts of future widening. • Funding • Provide a long-term source of new revenue to helpfund the improvements. • Enable the state to provide the improvements much sooner than would be possible with only traditional funding sources.

  13. Maryland’s Express Toll Lanes Initiative • Conclusion: Working in concert with other elements of the Maryland Transportation Plan, development of an Express Toll Lane network will help ease the burden of congestion in the state’s most traveled Corridors.

  14. Questions ???

  15. I-394 MnPASS:Performance Update Kenneth R. Buckeye Minnesota Department of Transportation Value Pricing Program Manager

  16. MnPASS Overview • Background • Objectives • Concept • Operations Update

  17. Background Study: Twin Cities’ high-occupancy (HOV ) lanes are underutilized while the adjacent general-purpose lanes are chronically congested. Need to preserve the transit and carpool advantage before the legislature lets SOVs in the HOV.

  18. MnPASS Objectives • Improve efficiency of I-394: increase person and vehicle-carrying capabilities of HOV lanes. • Maintain free flow speeds for transit and carpools. • Improve highway and transit in corridor with revenues generated. • Use electronic toll collection: tags/transponders and readers—no toll booths. • Employ new ITS technologies, such as dynamic pricing and in-vehicle electronic enforcement.

  19. MnPASS Express Lanes Concept • Three miles of two-lane, barrier-separated reversible section. • Eight miles of diamond lanesin the middle of a four- lane freeway separated by double-white-stripe- buffer (2 feet). • Five eastbound and five westbound access points. • Transit, carpools, motorcycles are free. • Single axle commercial up to 25,000 lbs. allowed. • Dynamic pricing adjusted every three minutes.

  20. Operations Update • MnPASS Use and Revenue • Enforcement • Transit/Mode Split • Access Control • Traffic Impact • Customer Feedback

  21. Weekly Toll Trips

  22. Weekly Revenue

  23. Opening Day Transponder Leases

  24. Trips by Account Zip Code

  25. Enforcement • Clearly has been successful • Violations are very low • Cheaters are creative • Enforcement activity is not impacting traffic flow

  26. Enforcement Stops

  27. HOT Lane Violation Rates

  28. Transit and Carpool Impacts • External issues impacting transit • Fare increase in June–ridership decline. • Gas price spike–ridership increase. • Transit operators have indicated • Access points not a big issue. • MnPASS lanes remain free flowing.

  29. Peak Period Transit Ridership(6 to 9 AM, 3 to 6 PM)

  30. Mode Split at Penn. Ave.(AM Peak Hour)

  31. Access Points • Upside • They work! • Very high compliance. • No apparent safety issues (data lags 6 months). • Reduces tolling infrastructure requirements. • Downside • Reduces flow in HOT lane in off peak. • Increases density in adjacent general purpose lane. • Reduces ability to pass slower vehicles. • Platoons of vehicles occur. • Prevents access to HOT lane for some trips. • Creates something that needs enforcement.

  32. Traffic Flow Analysis • Peak Hour Corridor Throughput • Eastbound volumes increases of 1.5 to 3.6%. • Westbound volumes decreases of 0.1 to 1.5%. • Peak Hour MnPASS Lane Throughput • Eastbound • Diamond lane–increase 16.0%. • Reversible road–increase 26.8%. • Westbound • Diamond lane–decrease 3.3% to 8.8%. • Reversible road–increase 13.7%.

  33. Customer Response • Very favorable feedback from customers. • Transponder leases • Big early demand, 4,000 leased before lane open • 8,700 transponder leases to date. • Leasing 80-100 per week since beginning of July • 1% account cancellation rate. • 80% of sign-ups are web based.

  34. Questions? Kenneth R. Buckeye kenneth.buckeye@dot.state.mn.us

  35. PRESENTERS • Patrick DeCorla-Souza Federal Highway Administration • Ginger Goodin Texas Transportation Institute

  36. Questions ???

  37. THANK YOU • Please provide your feedback. A link to an online Web briefing evaluation survey will follow in an email to Web briefing registrants. Please distribute this email to participants at your site. The survey will close in two weeks. Questions/Comments Aliyah N. Horton Senior Director Professional Development and Outreach ITE 1099 14th St., NW, Suite 300 West Washington, DC 20005 202-289-0222 ext. 137; ahorton@ite.org

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