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Title:

Fast Lane to Tel-Aviv: High-Occupancy-Toll Project with Pareto Package

Accession Number:

01368400

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

High occupancy toll (HOT) facilities are becoming increasingly popular as an alternative for high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. They have the potential of maintaining most of the benefits of HOV lanes (high speeds) while alleviating their main drawback (low capacity utilization). The conversion from HOV to HOT is therefore often a Pareto improvement, i.e. some users benefit from the change and no one loses. Implementation of HOT lanes at regular existing facilities, by itself, typically does not satisfy the Pareto condition for improvement. However, if properly packaged with other measures it might. This paper describes a HOT project implemented in Tel-Aviv, Israel, embedded in a package aiming to ensure Pareto improvement. The corridor of this project is the south-east entrance to the city, which suffered for many years from a typical three hours morning congestion stretching up to 10 km. The congestion is mainly due to a three lanes bottleneck right at the entrance to the city, where expansion is neither feasible nor desirable. The facility, opened to the public on January 7, 2011, is a physically separated 13 km single left lane dedicated to: public transport, high occupancy vehicles and toll payers (HOT). The system includes a dynamically responsive toll setting mechanism, which aims to ensure speed of 70 km/h on the fast lane as well as sufficient utilization by 1600 vehicles per hour or more. A free park and ride facility along the way enables users to carpool or to switch to a free shuttle service to downtown. The construction project also included an auxiliary right lane connecting an on-ramp in the middle of the facility to an off-ramp at the west exit from the facility.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB35 High-Occupancy Vehicle, High-Occupancy Toll, and Managed Lanes

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-0712

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Bar-Gera, Hillel

Pagination:

13p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References

Geographic Terms:

Tel Aviv (Israel)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-0712

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 4:56PM