Ramp High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Project
Work will address the potential of ramp metering and the combination of ramp metering with parallel HOV by-pass lanes and associated support strategies. The project study area limits for the tasks covered are: IL Route 53 and I-290 between Lake-Cook Road and Austin Avenue to allow for an interface with the Eisenhower HOV lane proposal. The study will be conducted for both inbound and outbound traffic flows for both the AM and PM peak periods. The project's objective is to determine the effectiveness in terms of: reduced travel delay, value of travel time saved, fuel volume savings, fuel cost savings, reduced vehicle emissions, increased person throughput and traffic safety if this transportation demand and system improvement strategy were to be applied in the identified traffic corridors.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $52000.00
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Sponsor Organizations:
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
,Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission
233 S. Wacker Drive
Suite 800
Chicago, IL United States 60606 -
Project Managers:
Vick, Tom
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Performing Organizations:
University of Illinois, Chicago
Urban Transportation Center
412 Peoria Street, Suite 340
Chicago, IL United States 60607-7036 -
Principal Investigators:
Kawamura, Kazuya
- Start Date: 20061204
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20071231
- Source Data: RiP Project 14049
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: High occupancy vehicle lanes; Peak periods; Ramp metering; Research projects; Traffic delays; Traffic flow; Traffic safety
- Uncontrolled Terms: Bypass lanes
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01460311
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: University of Illinois, Chicago
- Files: RiP
- Created Date: Jan 3 2013 1:22PM