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https://doi.org/10.3141/1884-01

http://scholar.google.com...lzin&publication_year=2004

The costs and benefits of integrating two major areas of urban transportation enhancement--high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes and bus rapid transit (BRT)--are explored. The goal is to assess a synergistic strategy of providing premium public transit services in conjunction with roadway pricing strategies. The use of BRT is specifically addressed in the context of a congested urban travel corridor with roadway value pricing. A simple simulation is used to determine those circumstances in which BRT might be an effective element of a multimodal value-pricing corridor strategy. The model used is a variation of SMITE (Spreadsheet Model for Induced Travel Estimation) extended to include managed lanes developed previously by DeCorla-Souza at FHWA. The analysis simulated some alternatives differing from those included in the original DeCorla-Souza assessment of options for the Capital Beltway in Northern Virginia. This is currently a 14-mi-long, 8-lane freeway with no restricted lanes. Seven alternatives are examined. Six of the alternatives place an additional lane in each direction, for a total of 10 lanes. The seventh alternative takes a lane in each direction to provide a special-purpose lane in each direction. The findings suggest that both roadway pricing and BRT compare favorably with toll-free facilities and conventional transit. Taking a lane for a combined HOT facility with BRT might be particularly cost-effective in select locations.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1884, Transit: Bus, Rural Public Transportation, and Paratransit.

00984581

English

p. 3-9

2004

Transportation Research Record

0309094798

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Bus rapid transit; Cost effectiveness; High occupancy toll lanes; Managed lanes; Road pricing; Simulation; Traffic congestion

Capital Beltway

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

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