Latest Benefits Updates

When conditional priority was deployed in Eindhoven, the Netherlands; buses experienced 27 seconds of delay without priority and no significant change in delay under conditional priority.
Date Posted: 11/14/2000 | Source Date:
At an intersection in Eindhoven, the Netherlands a transit signal priority system reduced bus schedule deviation by 17 seconds.
Date Posted: 11/14/2000 | Source Date:
A 1998 survey of transit riders in Ann Arbor, Michigan found that police presence and increased lighting had the greatest influence on riders' perception of personal security; emergency phones and video surveillance systems had little influence.
Date Posted: 11/03/2000 | Source Date:
In the south Swedish town of Eslov, most drivers participating in a field operational test reported that they preferred adaptive speed control to physical speed countermeasures such as humps, chicanes and mini-roundabouts.
Date Posted: 10/31/2000 | Source Date:
In England, a variable speed limit system on the M25 freeway increases average travel times, but promotes proper following distances between vehicles and creates smoother traffic flow.
Date Posted: 09/21/2000 | Source Date:
The Hoosier Helper program freeway service patrol program in Northwest Indiana had a projected benefit-to-cost ratio of 4.7:1 for daytime operations, and 13.3:1 for 24 hour operations.
Date Posted: 09/21/2000 | Source Date:
Based on a travel reduction ordinance requiring Phoenix employers with over 100 employees to reduce single-occupancy commuting trips by 5 percent, the City Public Transport Agency led the development of a Bus Card Plus system and as of 1996, 190 comp
Date Posted: 09/21/2000 | Source Date:
A two-year study by the American Trucking Associations Foundation found that the commercial vehicle administrative processes reduced carriers' costs by an estimated 9 to 18 percent when electronic data interchange technology was used.
Date Posted: 09/21/2000 | Source Date:
A bus priority system on a major arterial in Portland, Oregon reduced bus travel times by five to eight percent.
Date Posted: 09/21/2000 | Source Date:
Final Report: Commercial Fleet Management Project
Date Posted: 09/21/2000 | Source Date:
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