Latest Benefits Updates

In some situations, up to seventy five percent of all days can be missing data at urban locations when calculating annual average daily traffic statistics with archived ITS data.
Date Posted: 10/02/2013 | Source Date:
Commercial trucks without speed limiters had a significantly higher crash rate (approximately 200 percent) compared to trucks equipped with speed limiters.
Date Posted: 09/17/2013 | Source Date:
Decision Support System scenarios modeled on the ICM Corridor in Dallas Texas show travel time savings of 9 percent on arterials when vehicles divert from the freeway.
Date Posted: 09/17/2013 | Source Date:
Break even point calculated for an incident response program: reducing 30 seconds per incident results in $711,300 reduction in costs of delay, equivalent to the cost of operating the incident response program for a year.
Date Posted: 09/17/2013 | Source Date:
In North Carolina, Portable Traffic-Monitoring Devices found to provide a cost-effective and safe means of recording speed and traffic counts in work zones.
Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems can reduce the risk of fatal crashes by 33 percent.
Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
A simulation model used to manage work zone mobility showed travelers could save more than $1.63 million per day in reduced delay during reconstruction at the I-75/I-96 interchange in Detroit.
Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
Korean study finds Automatic Crash Information Notification Systems would reduce freeway fatalities by 11.8 to 18.1 percent.
Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
The implementation of ramp metering in Kansas City increased corridor throughput by as much as 20 percent and improved incident clearance by an average of four minutes, with these benefits remaining consistent in the long term.
Date Posted: 07/15/2013 | Source Date:
Benefits from an initial HOT lanes deployment in Minneapolis St. Paul were maintained in the long term, while a system expansion resulted in fewer benefits, but at a much cheaper cost.
Date Posted: 07/15/2013 | Source Date:
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