Traffic Management

Trip Reduction and Traffic Control

At the most basic level, traffic management involves programs to reduce vehicle trips by encouraging telecommuting, flex work hours, vanpools, carpooling, and increased use of public transit. Traffic management can also involve concepts such as traffic lights at entrance ramps that limit the number of people that may enter a highway at any given time.

Special Lanes

Another traffic management technique is the creation of special restricted lanes that may only be used by certain vehicles.  Transit Only Lanes would be limited to public buses and on some facilities van pools.  High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes are generally limited to buses, van pools and cars with multiple occupants.

Demand Based Tolling

In recent years tolling has also been used as a traffic management tool.  Tolls go up or down based on traffic in an effort to encourage people to avoid driving when traffic is heaviest.  A number of cities have applied tolling to the restricted lane concept to create something called Express Lanes.

Express Lanes

Express Lanes provide priority service to higher capacity vehicles such as public buses, and in some cases van pools and high occupancy vehicles. In addition, to ensure extra capacity in the lanes is not wasted, drivers of other vehicles can opt to pay a toll if they wish to use the lanes. As described above, the toll rate goes up or down based on demand to make sure the lanes remains free flowing and priority vehicles are not delayed.    

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